I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Question
What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 366 →
Ed Harris
American actor and director
The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
Samuel L Jackson
American actor
Finding out that life's not fair.
Tina Brown
British and American journalist
The closure of Talk magazine.
More from Kevin Pietersen
View profile →Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
Nappies aren’t fun!
A pilot or a ranger in the bush.
We Weren’t Born To Follow by Bon Jovi.
With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
More on failure & regret
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 203 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 122 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 69 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 36 answers
Also answered this
Ian Wright, Ally McCoist, Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah, Danny Cipriani, Gabby Logan
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject