When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Anna Friel said elsewhere, not written here
Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

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Helena Bonham Carter Actor
Both of the days my children were born. It was like I’d stepped through a mirror and everything turned Technicolor.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
Robert Bathurst English theatre and television actor
When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2020 source ↗
Erin Doherty
Mornings. Playing music, fresh coffee, dippy eggs and soldiers, my girlfriend – what’s not to love?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗

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I nearly died by burst ovarian cyst in 2001. I was doing the front cover of a magazine and someone said, “Can you not pull your tummy in?” It turned out that I had been carrying two litres of blood in my stomach. I was rushed to hospital the next morning and nearly died of septicaemia. They had to give me two blood transfusions. Had it been an hour later it would have been bye bye.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

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