I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have come out earlier.
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View all 203 →Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
Rose McGowan
American actress and activist
I wouldn’t have taken that meeting [with Weinstein in 1997].
Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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View profile →My friend Ian McKellen, who has an extraordinary record as an actor and a gay activist.
Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.
As a kind man who told good stories.
The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.
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