Victoria Pendleton: Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

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 Victoria Pendleton said elsewhere, not written here

Lots of people, mainly for being so absent from their lives while I was concentrating on sport. I’d also like to say sorry to my dad’s mum, because, aged four, I told her she was the worst cook in the world.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2017 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 ↗

Val McDermid Scottish crime novel writer

To my mum, for never being able to live up to what she would have liked me to be. She always wanted me to be a little princess and I was never going to be that.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2020 source ↗

Chris Hoy British track cyclist, 1994–2013

Max Levy, a German sprint cyclist who came second behind me a lot.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2018 source ↗

Anita Rani British broadcaster and journalist

Katie Whittaker. When we were at school, I told her I knew Take That, and I didn’t.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 July 2021 source ↗