Chris Bryant: 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 Chris Bryant said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

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David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality

My drinking habits.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

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 ↗

Eve Ensler American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist

I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗