Jessica Hynes: 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 Jessica Hynes said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Rose McGowan American actress and activist

I wouldn’t have taken that meeting [with Weinstein in 1997].

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author

Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗