Aretha Franklin: What do you fear most?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Aretha Franklin

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My lips are sealed.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗

Others on this question

Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗

Kellie Maloney Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician

Losing my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗

Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

Losing my family in some way.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

Something happening to one of my children.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗

My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2003 source ↗

It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2003 source ↗

Right here, right now.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗

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