Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

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Recorded Nick Frost said elsewhere, not written here
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗

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Mo Gilligan British comedian
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
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Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
To my children, because their mum and dad’s relationship failed, and I know that has caused them great sadness.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2019 source ↗

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