Marina Diamandis: Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

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.

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Archie Panjabi British actress

My dog, Mr Q, because he has the saddest look when I leave.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

Andrew Ridgeley

My dad, because he died before I could say goodbye.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗