Rosalind Eleazar: What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

What is the worst 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.

Recorded Rosalind Eleazar said elsewhere, not written here

I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Rebecca Ferguson

It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗

Sharleen Spiteri

Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗

Maya Jama British television and radio presenter

That I wouldn’t be successful. Joke’s on them, I guess.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗

Billy Crudup

I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗