The question
If you could revise one chapter of 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.
I would have been better with money.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
Can I have more than three? Creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous.
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