Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
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Death & what remains
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I made a suicide attempt at 12 or 13 years old.
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Olivia Williams
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Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
Sandi Toksvig
Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
Liam Gallagher
English singer-songwriter
When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.
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View profile →I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
The Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home.
In a photo album of just one family.
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