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The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate until after she’d gone that she was a vulnerable human being. I just expected her to know everything and be everything.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
Lack of empathy and compassion.
Driven, authentic, resilient.
Building my mum her dream home.
I’ll never amount to anything. Who? He was my rival at dance school. It hurt and is something that I’ve always had in the back of my head to defy.
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
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