The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Last night, having dinner with the family round the kitchen table.
In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.
When I hit 30 and managed to get a council flat in London. It was in the most terrible state, but it was bliss to have a flat of my own.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
For bringing positivity to people.
Stay out of other people’s business.
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Dying too young, and spiders.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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