Dan Stevens
English actor
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
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Having a heart attack two days after my wife’s funeral.
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Rick Astley
Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.
Nicola Walker
British actress
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
Julian Sands
British actor
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
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The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
Basking in the sun.
A Mercedes S Class.
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