Elaine Paige: 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 Elaine Paige said elsewhere, not written here

If I have upset someone, I have said sorry to him or her at the time.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗

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Ed Harris American actor and director

Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Michael Stipe American singer

Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2020 source ↗

Val McDermid Scottish crime novel writer

To my mum, for never being able to live up to what she would have liked me to be. She always wanted me to be a little princess and I was never going to be that.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2020 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

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Question What do you consider your greatest achievement? Craft & work

To be working still.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗

Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains

One night in Cats, I missed my footing and nearly plunged more than 30ft. As if by magic, the stage manager’s hand appeared and winched me from certain death.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗