Someone made a good point about this. The woman is still trying to bully Sarah even after all this time. By going through that list of what she clearly things are "achievements", what she is really saying is, "you might be on the tele but look at what I have done." It is a meaningless and dull list of vacuous life "milestones." Sarah's response was perfect.

The real genius of this is that she knows the lady's kids follow her, and she called her out by name.

Since leaving school I've met two of my former bullies. The first had matured quite a lot, he'd grown into a wonderful person and deeply regretted the way he treated me in school. The second tried to start a fight with me in the middle of a Walmart. Sometimes people change. Sometimes they don't.

15+ years on, my worst bully still looks, dresses and acts like Biff Tannen from Back to the Future. As far as I'm concerned, that's punishment enough.

As someone who also was the target of bullying I just clapped when I saw this bloody brilliant reply to a bully who was obviously hoping to ride the coattails of someone who she tried to destroy.

Well done Sarah, bullies are often social climbers and this one thought she could capitalise on her victim's success. This was a classy move and an opportunity for her kids to learn from you and not turn out like their mother.

Key component of recovery from PTSD: realising that you dont have to forgive your abusers, you owe them nothing

Love it. I actually had one of my secondary school bullies find me on facebook, she sent me a message to apologise for the years she bullied me. Yes, I messaged back and thanked her and said it takes a brave person to admit they did wrong and that I appreciated her for doing so.

Many of us have a tendency to write long explanations when responding to someone who has wounded us, which almost never works, nor gets us the peace we're looking for ... THIS is brilliant!!!

When I was in 8th grade I was at an event with a group of friends for the day at a local high school. There were students from multiple middle schools in attendance. We walked across the street at lunch time to purchase some food at a fast food place. When I walked in the restaurant there were a group of boys waiting in line to order. One of the boys turned around and said to me, “Hey, no dogs allowed.” Now that statement can crush a middle school girl but I grew up with four brothers and learned how to handle this situation. I looked at the boy that said this and said, “Then how did you get in?” Shut him up right away. Way to handle your email.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago . . . My school bully applied for a job with the company I worked for at the time. And I was on the interview panel . . . He He He

I remember the school bully in my class, everyone was scared of him, he fought with anyone who even looked at him. It's only years later I found out that his dad used to abuse him at home. His dad died quite young and he changed practically overnight, now the school bully is one of the most hard working likable people you could ever wish to meet.

I do not think there can be a better reply to an email from a bully than this one. Well done!

God the tone of Lynn's e-mail as well - "Anyway, enough about me, please get back to me at your earliest convenience thanks."

That was such a diplomatic but scathing British reply, I love it. 😂

I suspect a lot of bullies don’t realize or remember their bullying. I went to college with mine, and she once commented to me how I disliked her when we were younger. I was speechless-she had no idea how hard I tried to win her favor, and how much she hurt me! I just hope I can teach my kids not to fawn for anyone!

Loved her one sentence reply. I still hate my junior high bullies - it's been 40 years, and they can still f all the way off.

This woman just grasped my attention for seven minutes and I didn't even notice them pass. A comedic genius!

I used to google one of my worst bullies every few years. I admit I felt some devilish glee when I learned she and her husband were in legal trouble. But a few years later I saw she had OD’d and died, leaving behind four young daughters. Then I realized I had been carrying around my grudge from 7th grade long enough.

I hope that Lynn has seen this clip.

I bullied the hell out of a kid in high school, and one day I had an epiphany watching Billy Madison. I sent an apology to the guy, and he was really grateful. It's never too late to admit you did something wrong, and try to reach out to those you've harmed. Without bragging about all the places you've lived.

Speaking as someone who was bullied for years, I applauded that. Actual clapping and everything.

I’ve run into this as well. I was horrendously bullied in school to the point where my life was threatened and I had to leave home at around 15 and was homeless for about five years. I’m actually quite smart and resourceful and ended up being successful in my field, writing several books and speaking around the world. It’s absolutely gob smacking how many of the very worst bullies came out of the woodwork to suddenly be my “friend.” While generally I have accepted well-intentioned apologies, I make it clear that I want nothing to do with them because my life is too full and I have people close to me who have always loved me for who I am.

Saving “I don’t remember you very favorably” for later. Thanks, Sarah. 😊

Absolute class. I was expecting, I guess like most of us, that there would be a long reply to make us laugh and to make the bully feel small but it wasn't needed. That one sentence was absolute perfection.

'Just Seventeen, a magazine you read til youre fifteen.' 😂

Perfect reply to a bully! :-)

WOW, she is so much more graceful than I would have been. What a CHAMP!

I love this! So satisfying. Like so many other commentators, I was bullied too. When I was 30, I was a presenter at a conference. When I arrived, I was surprised when one of the organizers rushed out to greet me-she'd been one of my 8th-grade bullies (!), she'd been waiting for me, and she immediately gushed her apologies for times past. Fascinating, right? Well, I was up for forgiveness and saw this theatrical apology as a legit opening for connection. So I thanked her and shared briefly (like 1 minute) about both myself and news of a mutual friend of ours. Her eyes glazed over, and she made excuses to zip off-and I never saw her again. The lesson? The bullying was never about me-It was all about her, right on down to her fakey "I want to confess and feel better" apology. Folks, remember this: It's never about the merits/goodness/worthiness of the one being bullied. It's all about the inner life (or lack of one) of the bully. 💚

Now THAT is a great response (to the email)! The best part of it is that it allows the bully to fill in the blanks themselves, and they will have much harsher wording than you ever could have.

That bully letter was so self involved. It was all about her. No wonder she was a bully.

I remember being bullied at college by the same 4 lads every day. They spread a rumour that I was a virgin, made fun of my weight and made my life hell. I had no way to prove I wasn’t as I had just split from my ex a few months before as she was moving to Australia with her parents. I had put on a bit of weight as well because I was missing her. It was an awful time. I joined the forces not long after and got super fit after 6 months training and became a stronger more confident person but even now when I think back, I could happily switch the light off, binge eat and not speak to anyone. It’s horrible the effect they can leave on you. I’d love to bump into them now

Great response, at no point did the bully acknowledge or apologise for the bullying, so got the reply she deserved. She probably told her husband and kids about the email, without thinking she would get that kind of reply.

Someone who almost got me expelled from highschool sent me a friend request on Facebook, I simply asked her why she did since it is called a"friend request". She responded because we are friends, my response was: "we were never friends so please don't try to befriend me now". She apologized and that was that.

🤣🤣😂 One of my bullies was my older brother. That is until I came home one April afternoon in my senior year. I graduated high school weighing in at 122 pounds, 55.338Kg, and he was about twice my weight and a bit taller. When I walked into the kitchen he and our sister were there. As soon as I put my books on the table he started trying to hit me. I kept telling him to stop as I blocked his punches. He said that he wanted to see if I had learned anything in my Tang Soo-Do classes. After one of his punches I struck him in the solar plexus with a heel of palm strike. I was tired and what not so I didn't care how hard I did it but he went back up against the preheating stove. Oh, he was also shirtless.🤣 The look on his face was priceless. I think he found out if I had learned anything. That was the last time he did that. Our sister didn't help him much with, "I bet you'll leave him alone now, won't you?" She also had a smile...

When social media first took off, one of my old school bullies messaged me. Was a really nice message, said he couldn’t apologise for what his mates had done, but he had felt guilt for years over his own actions. I’d love to say I forgave him there and then, but honestly it took years to get over being bullied and it took me years to conquer my issues. So balls to to that guy. But… I’m glad he feels bad, good for him.

Best come back ever - very classy Sarah ❤❤❤

The best form of revenge is success ❤

When you get old you look at a woman like you and think " Ahh, to be young and beautiful again". It is a shame that when I was young I didn't realize that I was beautiful. You are beautiful so don't waste your youth putting yourself down.

I had two prior bullies apologize to me later in life. They both said they were going through bad times and took things out on me. People do change and I actually appreciated the insight they gained as it could only make them better humans.

That is an all-around excellent response to hearing from a past bully. Bullies being as they are, chances are good that she didn't even remember you, beyond the very general memory of having gone to school together. A lot of bullies target others as a means of passing time. So, for them, it's just another day-to-day event that gets forgotten soon after.

I love the joke about the maths teacher cutting the cake.

“one brown arm” 😂

Nearly 30 years after HS graduation, a very physically punishing bully from those days tried to friend me on my (now shut down) Facebook account. It was an easy ignore, done and done. I don't know what he'd be thinking ... that he's more mature and a better person now? The thing is, those were very formative years for me, and although I've forgiven those people for my own sanity, they collectively fucked up my psyche pretty good and it took a long time for me to recover. But forgiven as they may be, they're not coming back into my life. Forgiving is not forgetting.

I'd have worried that after answering "yes" to the question regarding one's feelings about having one brown arm, that the career the computer would choose as appropriate would be, Large Animal Veterinary Medicine.

I was bullied too. If one of my former bullies ever tries to friend me, I'll use an answer similar to yours. I love it. Simple, to the point, and the chances of a rebuttal are minimal. ❤

The email from the bully reminds me of the annual Christmas letters that we get here in the US. Always about how successful the spouse is, how many talents the children have, what prestigious schools the children attend, what fancy high class neighborhood they live in, blah, blah, etc., etc. Every year wished I could have thought of some clever letter to write about my kids being normal, living in a nice small town neighborhood, and the husband working years in a job that didn't pay much but he loved it.

I was bullied in middle and early high school, physically for the most part, because I was very very small for my age and im a guy. While I was able to keep myself from ever getting hurt since I knew how to fight, I was never able to get it to stop or to hurt the people doing it. Then I grew from 4’10 to 6’2 in high school. Things stopped rather quickly as the bullies realized that they were now the ones who would loose the fights they picked with me. I consider myself lucky for being able to get complete closure while still in school, and not having to carry around the feelings of being a victim into my adult life.

Yeah they all come grovelling when they see your doing well. 😂

My son still calls his bully satan....his bully was a guy, so hands on and visible. My bullies were all girls. Much harder to pinpoint, psychological bullying.

My bestfriend's (F) bully (M) was horrible and called her a fat freak in highschool. She was in no way either of those things, but she had a big glow up as an adult. Fast forward to us being 20, and him cracking on to her regularly at bars and online. She loved knocking him back. She still smiles thinking about it 10 years later.

I have complex PTSD from being bullied for about 14 years. There was also other traumas but the bullying was one of the worst. I am also on the Autism Spectrum and didn't get diagnosed until I was 27

I was always the fat kid. Bullying started really bad grade 7-8 . With not having a good home life no one to turn to. Teachers even laughing at the bullying I received . I have seen a few of the bullies over the years and didn’t handle it as classy as she did. It’s a hard place to be, thankfully it does get better ❤

Sarah wins the internet, standup comedy *and* email replies! Well, done, Sarah, bravo!

was bullied 3 years in grades 6th,7th, 8th . was beaten , made fun of and in 8th grade it turned sadistically sexual, all of it from the same boy, all these years later and i decided to look him up on facebook , he has pancreatic cancer and is going blind , i decided i didnt need to say anything

Having being bullied at school, I understand how it feels when there are things that reminds me of the unwanted memories as it is still hurts after a long time. Very brave of her to speak about this encounter on stage with the audience seeing the funny side.

My favourite clip from her. I am surprised she wasn’t popular at school. I would have thought the ability to make people laugh would have been enough on its own.

One of the funniest comedians around,she should always appreciate the fact she cheers everyone up,a rare talent these days.

I also had psychological bullies. I have since taken the family motto, "Unto bullies as they deserve."

Such an excellent reply!! In her face and you have the last word.

50 years on, my living nightmare bully is 67, like me, but she looks 80, while nobody believes I'm older than 50! 😊😊😊

I recently learned that my childhood bully got arrested and sentenced to 24 years in prison for SA against her own 3 year old son

I had bullies that later acted friendly. How strange. No, I didn't fall for it either.

3 separate times in my life I've had the privilege of responding to someone who used to either bully me or had taken advantage of me when I was younger - and each time was in person when they approached me with a "friendly" attitude. To see each of their reactions to my closed off responses didn't provide me any closure or anything like that, but it shown me that they were fully aware of what they did to me and just hoped it wouldn't be a big deal anymore. One of them did have the balls to apologise and we ended up shaking hands, but the other two couldn't even muster a shred of remorse... Ah well, life goes on.

That’s wonderful & well done to you! The last time I spoke to my school bully, I said, “how did you get this number?”. And the last thing I said was, “why would I come to the class reunion when I live all the way across the country?” I then called my mom to find out why she gave out my number. Didn’t make any sense to me. I did go to one reunion after we moved back to that side of the country, and it was a huge waste of time & money, & we won’t bother doing that again.

This Lynn sounds exhausting. You can tell she inserts "I lived abroad, I am so cool" in every possible conversation.😂

At a nightclub, I ran into a guy from school who apologised to me for how shitty he had been and spent the evening buying me drinks. The thing is, when the bullying was happening, he was more a bystander who never really did or said anything nasty to me himself. I even liked him because he didn't make my life difficult. I explained this to him but he didn't believe me. In the end I just gave up and let him buy the drinks. 😂

I was bullied all throughout grade school and high school. I didn’t get over it until I was around 35, when I realized that all the ones who had bullied me came from broken or abusive homes. Hurt people hurt people.

I think most of us clapped to the ending of that... That is exactly how I would have dealt with them! 🤣🤣

OMG, I got one of those “newsletter” type emails from one of my bullies. It was about 15-20 years after our high school days. It was disturbing. And she was a disturbing person way back back when, and I can’t imagine she had changed, so I didn’t allow any notable reconnection and happily, I haven’t heard from her since.

I was bullied in HS by the POPULAR (aka MEAN) girls. Then, I got a scholarship to college and a adjunct lectureship in Grad School, followed by the highest entry level IT engineering starting salary ever offered in NYC to that date. I never went back to the HS reunions but I did laugh all the way to the bank every time I got an invite. Plus, I "blossomed" at 18 and stayed "hot" well into my 50's. Guess who is still laughing....

I have watched this short clip at least 10 times, and oh my God, she leaves me in hysterics every single time! This just does not get old! Her timing, her delivery, everything about her is perfection! What is gem I stumbled upon! 🤣🤣🤣

The fact that she didn’t apologize to Sarah, and tried to be friendly like it never happened, is a huge sign that she regrets nothing. As a former bully myself, I would do anything to contact the kids I went to school with. I was an angry 11-year-old being raised in an abusive household, and I don’t know why, but I took it all out on this one boy in particular. I was never a violent kid before or after that, it was an anomaly, and it’s one of my biggest regrets. If I had the chance to talk to him, I’d be grovelling like hell, not using it as an opportunity to weirdly flex my achievements.

I had a persistent bully from 3rd grade until my junior year of high school when I called her out on her threats. No violence ever occurred, but from that point on, she only made snide comments occasionally and pretty much left me alone. Many years later she came to me in person to apology for her treatment of me. Found out she had a pretty unhappy home life, which she did not use as excuse, but genuinely felt sorry for all that happened. We didn’t become friends, but I did accept her apology and thanked her for it. I have always taught my children and now grandchildren to stand up for themselves. I’ve told them my story, and always did my best to give them the self confidence to know they are not what anyone else says they are.

Classy. As. F*ck. Awesome response!!!!!

I absolutely loved that she named her. Great work Sarah.

I was able to reconcile with my worst bully. We both grew up pretty decent, and he has daughters now. I've encouraged him to share our experiences with them to hopefully help protect them and prevent them from being bullys themselves.

Good for you Sarah. One of my primary school bullies repeatedly asked me out when I was an older teenager, I took great delight in turning him down. Your response was class 😂

Parents are the best. My mom's line was "You've got the face for radio" 😂😄😢

Several of my past bullies tried to be all buddy-buddy with me later in life. It is so f'ing bizarre...and gross. Well done on your response to the email! Wish I'd thought of that!

Brevity is the soul of wit. She gets it. Love it.

I was bullied by many different people throughout my school years. Not a single one has ever reached out to me to apologize, or for any reason. I'm 45 now.

Well done our Sarah - bullies are odious and need to be cancelled. And if you can do this in public - even better 👍🤣🤣

It seems that Lynn may not have changed much. 9/10 of the letter was about her. 😳

I got bullied at school and one of the bullies went on to represent the UK at a major international singing competition but got pipped to the post by another competitor and she was blatantly not happy. I'll be honest, I cheered!

"...like a fooked up Oprah" 🤣🤣🤣

I saw a bully of mine at the 10yr reunion, where I innocently happened to hit it off with her husband, who thought I was great fun. That still gives me a very gratifying chuckle.

Aw, it hurts that her self esteem is so low. I always thought Sarah was very cute and her personality really makes her shine! Good for her for getting back at her bully, not a lot of us will be presented with an opportunity like that in life!

Why would Lynn assume Sarah would want her life story. Say hello, and wait for the person to ask how your doing. Lynn sound like a Narcissist.

Well said, Sarah. Often less is more (something I am always working on). It's not always about being bullied yourself. Seeing others bullied and embarrassed can last a lifetime too.

I would have just typed two words to Lynn 😂

When I was in school, I was physically bullied by this girl in physical education. PE was a nightmare and a half with this girl. She was absolutely terrible to me, would beat me up for no reason and I always seemed to get in trouble with the coach, who of course never saw what this girl was doing. Fast forward about ten years. I had studied abroad, met my soon to be husband and had just returned to Texas from a two week trip to Europe. In other words, I was riding on top of the world and as luck would have, I had been invited to attend an informal five year class reunion. This girl was there and came up to me wanting to get the dirt about what I was up to. I gladly milked it for all it was worth. At the end of the encounter with her, she looked me squarely in the eyes and said 'Wow, I wish I was you!'. Instead of responding in a snarky manner (which I was seriously tempted), I politely excused myself, went into the ladies room, locked myself in a stall and began to laugh like a hysterical ninny. It was the best revenge I could have imagined, and I wasn't even trying to get revenge, it just happened.

I love absolutely everything about this brilliant woman.❤

Best way to humiliate the bully. Shame on you, Lyn.

I was bullied by four girls in sixth grade. Two of the girls were immediately genuinely remorseful when confronted and went on to be pretty friendly throughout the rest of school. Two girls were not really but said the right words. Years later in high school one of those two still blamed ME for her getting in trouble and would make passive aggressive remarks. I pittied her but really stayed away when possible; I had no time for that negativity. The fourth, who I considered the ring leader, never really gave me the time of day which was fine by me. I still held that grudge until in college and I thought I let it go when we shared a class and she seemed nicer and more mature. Then the next year she was diagnosed with cancer. That’s when I actually forgave her and finally felt like I’d let go of the hard feelings from so many years ago against any of them.

I love this lady - she is so funny

I was bullied so badly that I still suffer from it. I won’t say PTSD because I’m not diagnosed or anything and I don’t want to throw terms around. But I will say that if a certain song comes on, I shake and cry so badly I vomit because that was playing back when these girls circled me during the chorus and closed in slowly before beating me. So, do with that what you will. Years ago, one of them reached out via Facebook and apologized. She talked about how she was haunted by it. How she didn’t know why she did it or why it seemed so funny at the time. She has two kids and she’s afraid both that someone will do to them what she did to me AND afraid that they will do the things she did. It was genuine and heart wrenching honestly. I was able to tell her that I don’t hold a grudge against a twelve-year-old and that she must have been going through things to be that way. I told her I forgave her and that I’m glad she has a happy family. This would have the desired effect regardless of her sincerity. If she really meant her apology, then I was able to release her from her guilt. That’s a wonderful feeling. If she was just full of bs, then my kind reply made her feel powerless and downplayed the impact of her actions.

My bullies from school got called out on the facebook school page. Seems she bullied a lot of kids. Didn’t know that at the time. Another girl that bullied me. Went on Facebook to say her grandchild is being bullied and how she feels so angry. Thought. Karma.

Bravo for the way you handled this. That is class and maturity. Well done.

Bravo Sarah Millican!❤