Graham Norton really is an optimist.
Most people wouldn’t say that being stabbed “changed my life for the better”, but here we are.
The funnyman has opened up about the incident that happened in the eighties when Graham was in acting school.
He admitted that it was traumatic but it helped him put his life into perspective.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he was asked what the worst moment in his life was.
And rightfully so, he explained: “Getting stabbed in 1989. I lost half my blood.
“The bad moment I remember – because when it’s happening, is all just trauma – but then the morning after, I was in the hospital ward and I remember a nurse came up to me and said, ‘do you want us to contact anyone? Do you want us to contact your parents?’
“And in my head, I was thinking, ‘well, I don’t want to worry my parents but equally, if I’m going to die, they’d probably like to come and say goodbye to me, because they’d be annoyed if I didn’t tell them.'”
He went on to say: “So, I said to the nurse, am I going to die? And she went, ‘Eerrrrm…’ and I was like, ‘don’t pause. This is not the place to pause. This is quite serious.’ So that was bad.
“But the positive of it was I was probably in my mid to late 20s; I was going into a third year at drama school, and it just put everything into perspective.
“They were doing the castings for the third-year shows; there were a lot of people crying and running into toilets and slamming doors.
“And I was just sitting there going, ‘I’m alive. I’m good. I’m golden.’ So, in a way, it kind of changed my life for the better.”
Well, at least he can see the silver lining in everything!
