Rosanna Arquette: How close have you come to death?

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Recorded Rosanna Arquette said elsewhere, not written here

About 40 years ago I drove off an embankment and tumbled down a huge hill. I was standing in the field with my car smashed like a can, saying, “Am I dead?” because I had seen myself dead in the car. Then someone said, “Are you OK?” and I didn’t have a scratch. I believe it was an angel experience.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2021 source ↗

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Jonnie Peacock British athlete

When I was five and the doctors walked in and said to my mum: “I am not sure if you will be taking him home.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2018 source ↗

Lemn Sissay

I made a suicide attempt at 12 or 13 years old.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

And actually now having had the advantage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and being able to look at some of the records of what the apartheid government was doing, the thing that is surprising to me is why so many of us survived. I mean, how is it that they did not assassinate more of us?

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Stephen Graham English actor

I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗