Liam Gallagher: How close have you come to death?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Liam Gallagher said elsewhere, not written here

When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗

Emma Bunton British singer

When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

Joss Stone English singer, songwriter, and actress

Maybe the night we drove a Hummer in Kabul and went to a cafe that Osama bin Laden supposedly used to frequent.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

Tess Daly English television presenter

On a motorway three years ago. An HGV hadn’t seen me and pulled out. My father-in-law’s a truck driver and he said black cars are not very visible. I don’t drive them any more.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 December 2016 source ↗