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 Belinda Carlisle said elsewhere, not written here
I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 203 →
Adrian Scarborough British actor
The first 12 years of school. I was very unhappy. I was not academic, so I played the fool till I was 16.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗

Reggie Yates British actor and media personality
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

Jodi Picoult American author
I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2022 source ↗

More from Belinda Carlisle

View profile →

More on failure & regret

Also answered this · A–Z

Adam Clayton, Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Adrian Edmondson, Adrian Scarborough

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer