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’d have gone solo sooner.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
I’d love to have won Wimbledon.
I would not toy with people's affections as much.
I would have come out earlier.
I am consistently disappointed in the music industry. Every time someone says that I’m underrated, that feels extremely disappointing because I’ve done my end of the bargain.
At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
Big, shy, angry.
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