The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 August 2021 source ↗
I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
When I was in my 20s, I had an uncle who took his own life. I would like a second chance to say: “Hang in there.” My parents were living abroad, and me and my sister were just too young to notice the flags.
An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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