 Following a television interview in which Graham Chapman (qv)  mentioned (not for the first time) that he was a homosexual, the  Pythons received a letter from an enraged woman who said she heard  an "anonymous" member of Monty Python had confessed to being gay.  She enclosed several pages of prayers for his salvation and said  that if he repeated them every single day he might acquire some form  of purgatory. Eric Idle (qv) replied to her saying that they had  found out who it was and had stoned him. Shortly thereafter,  John Cleese (qv) left the show for the last season. The woman  never wrote back.