Experience confrontation (8)
I believe the answer is:
incident
This clue is a double definition.
'experience' is the first definition.
(thesaurus)
'confrontation' is the second definition.
(I've seen this before)
(Other definitions for incident that I've seen before include "Public disturbance" , "Happening (often of a criminal nature)" , "Cited inn as source of happening" , "Falling" , "Confrontation" .)