James Norton: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

James Norton

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would have started therapy earlier.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Harriet Walter English actress

I would never have gone on a diet. I would go back with the knowledge that not being perfect is fine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

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

Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet

I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer

I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗