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.
The Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
To any of the players I may have fallen out with during my time in management.
Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.
I made a suicide attempt at 12 or 13 years old.
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
That I can’t write.
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
Emily Mortimer, Ian Wright, Neil Gaiman, Andi Oliver, Dervla Kirwan, Judith Kerr
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