29-04-2025
John Cleese took LSD at 65 to see ‘what it was all about'
John Cleese, the now-85-year-old comedy legend, was 'surprisingly ignorant' and was never 'interested' in drugs as a younger man.
But in 2005, he decided to try the potent hallucinogen LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), which 'can alter a person's perception of reality and vividly distort the senses'.
He took the drug under supervision, and was left in amazement at the effects.
He told the Times' Weekend magazine: 'I just wanted to know what it was all about'.
'The man was one of the world experts on it, so I felt perfectly safe.
