The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My relationship with drugs.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.
I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
The inability to do things for myself.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
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