Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
There have been moments when I’d want to say sorry to both my parents for some of the stuff I’ve done.
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The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
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Clara Amfo
Broadcaster
I never said it out loud, but I had this “Why aren’t you like the other mums?” energy towards my mum. Now I am an adult, I am happy that she came here from Ghana and remained who she was, but for a long time I resented her.
Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
Walsall fans. I wanted to be a good manager but I was really bad with drink and gambling at the time. I should have done better.
My first wife, because I left her.
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Not having had children.
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