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 change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
The loss of Conrad.
Being a decent person.
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
On my wedding day in Oxfordshire, six years ago.
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