The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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The music journalist Paul Morley described me as bland.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
I am mortified that we went into Afghanistan, promised to liberate the female population and, 20 years later, dumped them in a situation as bad, robbing girls of their futures.
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
Reading a newspaper.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
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