Liam Gallagher: 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 Liam Gallagher said elsewhere, not written here

When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

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Martin Sheen American actor

Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗

Liev Schreiber American actor

A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗

Shaun Ryder English singer

I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Joanne Froggatt English actress

I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗