Geoffrey Rush
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A panic attack on stage during The Importance Of Being Earnest. Well, it felt like death.
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When I was little, I took a bunch of pills out of the cabinet because I was bored, when I was supposed to be taking a nap. I had to have my stomach pumped.
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Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
A death threat at Glastonbury festival in 1989. The police told me not to go on, but I said I had to because I was headlining. So I wore a bullet-proof vest. It seemed unlikely that I would be assassinated, but it was shocking and very stressful.
Adam Peaty
British swimmer; Olympic champion 2016 and 2021
I was on a cliff in Dartmoor, doing a Royal Marine abseil. I fell upside down and thought, “I’m going to die here.”
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
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I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
As a generous soul.
Cortez The Killer, by Neil Young.
Worrying about my daughter, worrying about money.
A pair of Saint Laurent trousers.
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