Ronnie Wood: How close have you come to death?

How close have you come to death?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Ronnie Wood said elsewhere, not written here

I can dodge the bullets – I’m lucky.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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Maggie O'Farrell Irish-British novelist

How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗

Bryn Terfel Welsh bass-baritone singer

In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗

David Arquette American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler

I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗

Rory Kinnear English actor

I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗