Vanessa Redgrave: Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

Originally asked

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

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Vanessa Redgrave said elsewhere, not written here

I would very, very much like to say sorry to my mother, for all the times I told her I hadn’t got the time to talk.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Martin Freeman English actor

I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗

I am too ashamed to answer.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗

Is all happiness in the past? Well, the births of three children. And playing with children and grandchildren.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

To lose my fourth baby.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

Maybe a skilful bronze face somewhere. Or a small but helpful scholarship for a drama student or singer to study singing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

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