The question
How close have you come to dying?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.
I nearly died by burst ovarian cyst in 2001. I was doing the front cover of a magazine and someone said, “Can you not pull your tummy in?” It turned out that I had been carrying two litres of blood in my stomach. I was rushed to hospital the next morning and nearly died of septicaemia. They had to give me two blood transfusions. Had it been an hour later it would have been bye bye.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗
Maybe the night we drove a Hummer in Kabul and went to a cafe that Osama bin Laden supposedly used to frequent.
I had spinal meningitis when I was 13.
I was invited to Sharon Tate’s house the night she was murdered. I declined the invite due to jetlag.
Horse riding in a steep canyon in Los Angeles. A couple of paparazzi had hidden under camouflage blankets and when a horse sees a lens, he thinks it’s the eye of a predator. My horse flipped out. When he landed, I ended up on his neck; that was pretty close.
Getting down to the last two of certain jobs (Gangs Of New York and Fight Club) and being thwarted at the last second.
Weird Fishes by Radiohead.
Warm, comforting, hopeful, inspiring and daft.
Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.
A barrister or a pop star.
Sue Perkins, Omid Djalili, Dan Stevens, Martin Kemp, Eleanor Tomlinson, John Waters
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