Alison Steadman: 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 Alison Steadman said elsewhere, not written here

I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

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Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor

I would take things a little slower.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

David Jason English actor

Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 May 2021 source ↗

Adam Kay British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician

I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗