Andi Oliver: Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

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.

Andi Oliver

British cook, television and radio broadcaster, singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

To my brother, because when we were kids I didn’t understand his illness and it used to irritate me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 December 2021 source ↗

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Charles Dance British actor

My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗

Rosalind Eleazar

My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Ralph Ineson English actor and narrator

My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2018 source ↗

Stanley Tucci

My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗