Liam Gallagher: 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 Liam Gallagher said elsewhere, not written here

When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

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Ed Harris American actor and director

Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Andy Serkis English actor

I made a solo attempt at the Matterhorn in 1996 and came very close to falling. I waited until the dawn light came, so I could retrace my route, but I was hanging off my ice axes for 45 minutes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2017 source ↗

Roger Ebert Film critic

One of these days I will encounter what Henry James called on his deathbed “the distinguished thing.” I will not be conscious of the moment of passing. In this life I have already been declared dead. It wasn’t so bad. After the first ruptured artery, the doctors thought I was finished. My wife, Chaz, said she sensed that I was still alive and was communicating to her that I wasn’t finished yet. She said our hearts were beating in unison, although my heartbeat couldn’t be discovered. She told the doctors I was alive, they did what doctors do, and here I am, alive.

Recorded Salon, excerpted from Life Itself: A Memoir, 15 September 2011 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist

When I was little, I took a bunch of pills out of the cabinet because I was bored, when I was supposed to be taking a nap. I had to have my stomach pumped.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗