The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
I’ve heard it all: too fat, too short, no talent. Those are the things that cut me deep when I was younger, but now they drive me.
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
Bear Grylls, Ed Harris, Fiona Allen, Marcus Mumford, Meghann Fahy, Sarah Hadland
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