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Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?

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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 ↗
Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗
Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor
There have been moments when I’d want to say sorry to both my parents for some of the stuff I’ve done.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

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