The question
What most recently moved you to tears?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.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
I cried this morning when I was meditating, for the first time. I had this real feeling of gratitude that my dad survived his addiction.
Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
Yesterday because I was being paid to do it on stage.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
A fighter pilot.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
I still say yes to too many things.
Erin Doherty, Paul Heaton, Mark Bonnar, Jessica Brown Findlay, Nigel Havers, Sharleen Spiteri
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