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Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
Five years ago, a concrete plug, a little bigger than a baseball, fell off a building on Hollywood Boulevard when I was riding in an open convertible. It shattered the windshield. It really shook me. I still have it on my mantel.
There are so many instances when I’ve come very close to death that it’s difficult to pick one.
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.
A home on the shores of Lake Como.
Les Fleurs by Minnie Riperton.
At the end of It’s A Sin by Russell T Davies.
My car, a dilapidated old Jag.
When I am up in the air and about to hit the water, literally and metaphorically.
Lance Black, John Waters, Gemma Whelan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Sue Perkins, Martin Kemp
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