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Scuba diving in Costa Rica. My stunt double and I were trying out some equipment that let us talk to each other and I ran out of air at 80ft - probably because I talked too much. I had to use his air. Then we were surrounded by sharks. It was scary.
In 2016, I fell off stage in Switzerland and broke my back in four places.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago, but so early that I knew it wasn’t a death sentence. Until we get a cure for cancer, early detection is our best hope.
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
Hard work, painful.
Watching the final episode of Mare Of Easttown.
The day I passed my driving test, at 17.
My dog was quite expensive. She’s a Bedlington whippet, named Rafi after Mohammed Rafi, the famous Indian singer. She’s got a boy’s name, but she doesn’t mind.
I am a pretty good dog mum.
Guilt for not being productive enough – ridiculous.
Winston Churchill, Edwina Currie, Louis Theroux, John Lewis, Clive Myrie, Edmund Hillary
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