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.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I’m not thrilled with my lack of commitment to feminism in my 20s.
My drinking habits.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
Absolutely nothing.
I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Full of passion and laughter.
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
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