Minnie Driver: 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 Minnie Driver said elsewhere, not written here

I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.

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

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Lemn Sissay

I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

Naga Munchetty

All the times I was mean to someone.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer

I would be a bit nicer to myself.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗