John Cleese claims he received a message from beyond the grave from a co-star who died 35 years ago.
The Fawlty Towers star, 84, explained that he went to visit a psychic to help “explore his consciousness” and they seemingly channeled comedian Graham Chapman, who died from cancer in 1989.
Cleese and Chapman worked on several Monty Python projects together, including the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning Of Life (1983).
The Somerset-born personality recalled how the psychic asked him if the name Graham meant anything to him and he knew instantly it was Chapman, especially when she said he was talking about a pipe.
“I said, ‘yes, he always smoked a pipe.’
Eerily, she then began making references to an extremely rare Monty Python sketch that Cleese was certain she would never have seen as it was only broadcast “once or twice”.
“She said, ‘he’s rolling up his trouser leg,’ and I said, ‘yes. oh, that’s a sketch we did about the Freemasons.‘
“I know she didn’t see it, it was broadcast once or twice,” he told Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast.
He added: “Until you experience it, until you hear the things that are coming back… there is no explanation in science for this. Scientists hate it so much because there is no explanation for it.”
Cleese has spoken openly over the years about his interest in the supernatural and even chaired a talk at the 2018 Tom Tom Festival, probing a panel of scientists whether there life after death.
