The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
“You’re getting old.” My son Harris was factually correct, but I didn’t need to hear it.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
A painting by Renoir, paid for by demanding a huge fee for a screenwriting deal with a producer I didn’t want to work for. The movie was never made.
Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
Alison Steadman, Peter Sarsgaard, Fearne Cotton, Eleanor Tomlinson, Pauline Black, Frank Bowling
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