The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?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.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗
I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
Omid Djalili, Patricia Hodge, Charlotte Church, Eleanor Tomlinson, Guy Pearce, Katherine Parkinson
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