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.
My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
Some of my teachers. I was a bit of a handful as a kid. They were just trying to do their job and I made it very difficult.
Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
My brother: I never meant to kill your pet frog. I thought I was doing a good deed cleaning the mossy tank with bleach. Can I also say sorry to the frog?
A wedding ring.
If I needed less sleep.
Funny Irish woman.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Bunton, Harry Redknapp, George Takei, Marina Abramović, Munroe Bergdorf
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