The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I think that’s a thesis.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.
To my wife Saadiya, for interrupting too many evenings, weekends and family holidays with work.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
Haven’t done it yet.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Well, I’m always right.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Julie Andrews, Adam Clayton, Jake Shears, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West, Nicola Walker
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