Lolita Chakrabarti: 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 Lolita Chakrabarti said elsewhere, not written here

To my mum; I wish I’d known her better before she passed in 2016.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗

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Alice Eve British actress

To all my teachers – I’m sorry I thought class was a paying audience.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2020 source ↗

Guz Khan

To my cousin P, who was one of my best mates growing up. We lost him when we were in our 20s and, before he passed away, I was so busy with this stupid thing called life and a brand new kid. He called me and said: “Bro, I’m not feeling right.” And I said: “Bro, you’ve never been feeling right.” And it always sits on my head that if me or somebody else had been paying more attention maybe things would have worked out different. He had extremely rare bowel cancer and died five weeks later at 27.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

Mo Gilligan British comedian

Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

George Takei

As a teenager I told my father, “You led us into the camp like sheep to slaughter.” I knew I had hurt him, this man that I loved so much. That’s haunted me all my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2019 source ↗