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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
Have you seen my documentaries?
Nine years ago I discovered I had stage 3/4 uterine cancer and went through nine months of excruciating surgery, illness and chemotherapy. In that time, I touched death and it was the most powerful transformation of my life. I was forced to learn to take care of my body.
When I was drinking, there were many times when I was out for the night and didn’t come back for a week.
To still be working.
“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
Never working again.
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
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