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.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
A friend and I were talking about eating disorders and he said: “Well, we never have to worry about you not eating.”
Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
“We’d love you to be on the cover of our magazine and we’ll give you a makeover.”
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
You are your own greatest asset.
I started my career not getting jobs, but then you learn that 95% of this job is not getting jobs, and you just have to make peace with it.
Funny Irish woman.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
Becoming invisible.
Mark Radcliffe, Juliet Stevenson, Stockard Channing, Tamsin Greig, Jon Snow, Michelle Collins
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