The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
I am not afraid.
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
Losing the 1992 general election.
Ed Koch, Jon Sopel, Rachel Maddow, Rory Stewart, Mike Wallace, John Lewis
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