Clara Amfo
Broadcaster
I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
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Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
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On the back of an angry Icelandic pony when I was filming a show called Spending Dave’s Money with Phil Tufnell.
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A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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I fell off a ladder, landed on my back, got up and was fine.
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After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace.
That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
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