The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?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.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
I’m good at saying sorry – so no one, because I’ve already said it.
To Mark Smith, a boy we bullied at primary school. I’ve always felt terrible about it.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
My ex-wife, because I should have been a better man.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
In my 20s I was in a show called The Unauthorised Autobiography of Samantha Brown. The actor who played my dad messed up his lines and it made me laugh so hard that I ended up peeing my pants.
An inability to be authentic.
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
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