There have been moments when I’d want to say sorry to both my parents for some of the stuff I’ve done.
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My daughter, Coco, because divorce is so difficult.
To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
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When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
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