Siobhán McSweeney: Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?

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.

Recorded Siobhán McSweeney said elsewhere, not written here

So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗

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Kate Nash British musician

Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2019 source ↗

Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

To John, a really close friend who died last year. I'd love to see him one more time and say, 'Look, I'm sorry I wasn't around enough during your life.'

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 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 ↗

Michelle Dockery British actress