Florence Welch: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

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Recorded Florence Welch said elsewhere, not written here

Never getting the lead in the musical at school.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

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Romola Garai

Realising I was never going to make it big in professional swing dance.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2013 source ↗

Yvon Chouinard Founder of Patagonia

That was certainly the single darkest day of the company's history.

Recorded Robin Barton, profile sidebar, The Observer, 25 February 2007 source ↗

Kevin Pietersen English cricketer

The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗

Josette Simon British actor

That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2022 source ↗