David Arquette: How close have you come to death?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded David Arquette said elsewhere, not written here

I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 209 →

Kathy Lette Australian-British author

Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Judy Murray Scottish tennis coach

On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 December 2020 source ↗

Paapa Essiedu British actor

In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗