The question
When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim recurring question in The Guardian's Q&A series.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
My brother was singing Yellow Submarine on stage with his class. I was singing along with them, showing off cos I knew all the words. The song ended suddenly and I was the only one in the whole hall who sang, 'We ...'
Being misrepresented by a Sun journalist 12 years ago.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
Ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
Meghann Fahy, Denise Welch, Marcus Mumford, Peter Sarsgaard, Bryn Terfel, Marina Abramović
Search the directory for somebody in particular.