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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 August 2021 source ↗
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.
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
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.
An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alice Eve, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Angela Griffin
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