Kelsey Grammer: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could edit 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.

Kelsey Grammer

American actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My sister’s death – I would love to meet her kids. [Karen Grammer was 18 when she was abducted, raped and murdered.]

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Sofie Gråbøl Danish actress

I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2014 source ↗

Samuel West British actor, theatre director, and narrator

I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975

I wish I sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued then and I - I would have been re-elected, but that may have - and that may have interfered with the foundation of the Carter Center. And if I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I think I would choose the Carter Center.

Recorded News conference at the Carter Center, Atlanta, as transcribed by CNN, 20 August 2015 source ↗

Lionel Shriver American author

I would have taken more drugs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

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Question What song would you like played at your funeral? Death & what remains

I would borrow from Peter Sellers: Glenn Miller’s In The Mood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2016 source ↗

Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2016 source ↗

Question What has been your biggest disappointment? Failure & regret

It would have to be the justice system in Colorado, which is not geared toward taking care of victims. The guys who killed my sister in 1975 always come up for parole every year.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2016 source ↗