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What most recently made you cry?

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 37 Politics and public life 1 Business and finance 1
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Hamza Yassin
My last dance with Jowita, my dance partner. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster; she’s taught me so much about myself and I grew as a result. I’m more confident, more understanding, more respectful, more attuned with myself and others, more mentally strong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗

Rebecca Ferguson
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗

Rosalind Eleazar
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Rebecca Lucy Taylor
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Guz Khan
We’re not really allowed to cry where I’m from. I can only cry in summer, at the height of hay fever.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

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