The question
What is the worst 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.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
The music journalist Paul Morley described me as bland.
On my professional stage debut, I heard my drama tutor moan, “Oh no” from the rear stalls as soon as I appeared.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
OCD medication.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
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