On the back of an angry Icelandic pony when I was filming a show called Spending Dave’s Money with Phil Tufnell.

Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.

When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.

When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.

When my dog died a couple of years ago. We were in Greece on vacation and a friend was watching her at home, and she was bitten by a snake. We rushed home, but we were too late by a few hours.

That I still don’t understand life. When I was young, I thought at some point I would find somebody who does. I am 45, and there is a good chance that I’ll never meet somebody like that.

Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.

On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.

When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.

I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.