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 cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗
I’ve heard it all: too fat, too short, no talent. Those are the things that cut me deep when I was younger, but now they drive me.
“Let’s face it, you’re not Ingrid Bergman.” I was 19 and he was a potential boyfriend. My only thought at the time was: “I’m not?”
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
Loved you in Dallas.
Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.
I had an opportunity many years ago to move to America and be given a daytime TV show. The kids were quite young and I decided not to, but looking back I wish I had done it.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
A travel agent.
Nothing: I live in the now.
Fear of flying.
David Hasselhoff, Desmond Tutu, Billy Crudup, Pauline Black, Bruno Tonioli, Hugh Skinner
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