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.
Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
To the British public for my time on X Factor.
I am mortified that we went into Afghanistan, promised to liberate the female population and, 20 years later, dumped them in a situation as bad, robbing girls of their futures.
To all my ex-girlfriends because I never turned into the person I thought I was. And to Naomi Campbell, for not being ready to deal with my addictions.
When I was little, this boy would bully my friend and me all the time. One day, on our way home, we held him, put him to the ground and pushed his face full on into this big dog poo, and I’d like to say sorry.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
My dog’s trust in me.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
I don’t care if I am remembered or not.
Billy Ocean, Kate Nash, Emma Bunton, Liam Gallagher, Fran Healy, Meghan Trainor
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