Bianca Jagger: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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.

Recorded Bianca Jagger said elsewhere, not written here

I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗

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Ann Dowd American actress

I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 January 2022 source ↗

Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

Reggie Yates British actor and media personality

How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

Michelle Collins

I would have been better with money.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗