Minnie Driver: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

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.

Minnie Driver

British and American actress

Recorded 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 ↗

Others on this question

Sheena Easton Scottish singer

I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2017 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

Billy Ocean British singer

I would do a lot more investments.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2016 source ↗

I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗