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.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗
I’m good at saying sorry – so no one, because I’ve already said it.
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.
To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
To Gorka Márquez, who was my Strictly partner, for not winning the glitterball in 2022.
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
Catastrophising.
A few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony.
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