Tracey Ullman: How close have you come to death?

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 Tracey Ullman said elsewhere, not written here

On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗

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Julie Hesmondhalgh English actress and narrator

Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗

Rick Astley Singer, songwriter and radio presenter

In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

John Waters American filmmaker

Just thinking about unsafe sex.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

Sofia Helin Swedish actress

When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗