Lleyton Hewitt: What most recently made you cry?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Lleyton Hewitt said elsewhere, not written here

My kids wrote a song for me, recorded it on to a CD and it was played before my last Australian Open. I had no idea until I heard it live on TV.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2016 source ↗

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Don Warrington British actor

I am not a great crier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗

Rosalind Eleazar

Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Ricky Gervais

Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2014 source ↗

Julian Lloyd Webber British cellist and conductor

Our beautiful cat was so ill that we were hours away from having her put down. Somehow, we’ve managed to nurse her back to full health again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2023 source ↗