Munroe Bergdorf: Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

The question

Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

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

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Munroe Bergdorf

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Everybody I’ve lost to suicide. When someone dies in that tragic way, you always feel you could have done more.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 July 2025 source ↗

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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 ↗

Michael Stipe American singer

Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2020 source ↗

Keren Woodward

I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

Bella Freud British fashion designer

I’ve said sorry to everybody I wanted to – I’m good at saying sorry quickly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2017 source ↗