The question
How close have you come to dying?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.
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗
A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Fifteen years ago, a bacteria went to my heart. For three days they didn’t know if I was going to live or not.
When a pal grabbed hold of me as I fell into an unbanistered stairwell at a rave. Would have been curtains, but for his sharp reaction.
I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
Being a decent person.
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
On my wedding day in Oxfordshire, six years ago.
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
Liev Schreiber, Brendan Gleeson, Rose McGowan, Lesley Sharp, Michael Flatley, Lance Black
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