It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m not interested.
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Fran Healy
Scottish musician
“Everyone hates you.” (My manager, a long time ago.)
That I am a terrible actor.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
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I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
Accidentally walking on to set naked for a scene where I wasn’t actually supposed to be naked.
People singing in the street.
Like nothing’s a problem.
Catastrophising.
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