What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

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

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Recorded Lucy Lawless said elsewhere, not written here
They tend to say it behind my back.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗

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Alison Steadman British actress
A critic once said she wanted to lift a carpet, put me under it and hold it down until I stopped moving.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
Paul McKenna British hypnotist and TV personality
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗
Hamza Yassin
There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
Julian Lloyd Webber British cellist and conductor
When the surgeon told me I wouldn’t be able to play the cello again, in 2013. I have a herniated disc and it’s pressing on a nerve in my neck. I announced I was stopping playing in 2014. I absolutely did not want to stop.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2023 source ↗

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