Really? I thought he decided to embrace sexual abstinence to his dying day.
He was always a bit off. He left one show in the middle of a shoot and took off for the continent. "Wooster and Jeeves", maybe.
No. He got one bad review for the play “Cell Mates,” left a message on his phone answering machine that he was committing suicide and then took off for Bruges with a Zaget’s, leaving the entire cast stranded. It closed the show causing untold financial damage to a lot of people. The playwright, Simon Grey, categorized the whole thing in his memoir. A truly terrible thing to do.