John Cleese Talks About His Pricey Divorce

Daily Mail:

Given he's on a third divorce, John Cleese is hardly talking from a position of strength with his views on marriage.

But the Fawlty Towers star has argued that wedding licences should be regularly renewed - like dog licences.

As for becoming parents, the father-of-two said couples should have to pass tests before being able to have a child.

Asked whether he would have liked to have spent the past 40 years with one woman, the 68 year old comedian replied: ' No. I think it should be like dog licences.

' I think you should have to renew marriage licences every five years, unless you have children.

' And I think before you have children you should have to go and pass various tests and get a licence to have a child. Because it's the most transformative and difficult thing of your life.'

The former Monty Python star also revealed that he must keep working to help fund the acrimonious, and expensive, divorce from his third wife, American-born psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger.

'People would think I'd have enough money, but I do have a very expensive, or comparatively expensive, divorce,' he said.

' When I divorced Barbara (Trentham, his second wife) in about '88 that cost me £2.5 million then.

'And now this divorce with Alyce Faye - I mean, I'm paying more than £1 million a year right now. And we never had children.

' When I got divorced from Connie (Booth, wife one) ....and when I got divorced from Barbara, I didn't need lawyers on either occasion, because I just sort of said: "Why don't I give you this?" And they said : "That's very fair, very generous. Thank you." End of story.

'This woman now was asking my old St John's Wood accountants for 60 boxes of documents, so many documents that they had to send people out from California to go through them.'

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Comments

[rzan1]

I am a fan, but I don't think it would be easy being married to John Cleese.

[hypnotoad72]

He's certainly right regarding children. I've observed a number of people allowing their children to do the worst things (like the cretin I'd recently seen letting her offspring hang backwards off the front of the grocery cart while mom's pushing it around the store - I felt sorry for the girl, especially if something did happen and people often bump into each other, so mommy was simply being a damn fool. (Chris Rock should turn that skit of his into a weekly show; it'd never grow old, I regret to say.) But I digress. To tell her, regardless of how polite one could be, not to let her daughter do that would most likely be responded to with gibber about rights and having the audacity to meddle in her life. (not her daughter's, HER life.)

[nobozos]

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Hey John....I would be happy to be your 4th.
You've been my #1 desert island guy since "Holy Grail" when I was in college.

Humor is EVERYTHING.
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[spartanspirit]

Remember John, you have one limb left and the prior three...."'tis but a flesh wound!"