The question
What is the harshest 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.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
There are yards and yards and yards of abuse every day. I ignore the lot of it.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
Intermittent laziness.
With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
It will be the one or two or three senior Republican leaders who take a public and forceful stand against the ugly lunacy of the Trump administration.
That I didn’t go to Turkey during the pandemic for one of those male hair treatments.
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
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