Michelle Dockery: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Michelle Dockery

British actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2020 source ↗

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Kim Wilde English pop singer

There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Patricia Hodge English actress

Not applying myself enough at school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗

Ronnie Wood English rock musician

All the hanging about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan human rights advocate

I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗