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.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
My parents, for not pursuing an academic career.
When I was 17, my friends and I threw a fashion show for a breast cancer charity. Breast cancer is something my mum went through when I was 14, so prevention is very close to my heart. Our singer, who was performing during the fashion show, dropped out at the last minute so I had to step in. It’s on video, and my sister always brings it up.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
That everything happens for a reason.
Silly, loving and, as an Aries, passionate.
The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].
My mum [the actor, Sally Dynevor] in so many ways. She is the real definition of a superwoman to me.
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