The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?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.
“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
“Your cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
Now, with time and wisdom you know your happy places.
Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
I haven’t stopped crying since Glastonbury, because I’m on a massive comedown.
Just being remembered at all would be great.
Bryn Terfel, Belinda Carlisle, Adam Lambert, Fran Healy, David Hasselhoff, Bruce Dickinson
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