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On stage in Tasmania, I tripped over a floor monitor and landed on my back like a turtle, kicking my legs in the air trying to get back on my feet in front of about 5,000 people. But when I got on my feet, the whole crowd roared in triumph.
On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out.
When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Effervescence in the soul.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
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