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On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
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Anna Friel
English actress
I nearly died by burst ovarian cyst in 2001. I was doing the front cover of a magazine and someone said, “Can you not pull your tummy in?” It turned out that I had been carrying two litres of blood in my stomach. I was rushed to hospital the next morning and nearly died of septicaemia. They had to give me two blood transfusions. Had it been an hour later it would have been bye bye.
Reggie Yates
British actor and media personality
Have you seen my documentaries?
Shirley Ballas
English ballroom dancer
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
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When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
The End by the Beatles.
I did a crap impersonation of JK Rowling a few years ago. Sorry, JK. Can this apology put me on a casting list for your next mega-franchise?
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