Michael Stipe: Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

The question

Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

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.

Michael Stipe

American singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

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James Blunt Singer, songwriter and musician

To the British public generally. They know why.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗

Ian Wright English footballer and pundit

My ex-wife, because I should have been a better man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2019 source ↗

John Simpson English journalist

I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

Vick Hope British television and radio presenter

My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗