""In those days, Footlights didn't have to accommodate women - like the rest of the university," she explained. "We were in a minority. We felt allowed to be there, rather than welcomed. "I have never felt like that about myself. I take up the space I take in the world, and I think it's worth the same as anybody else's space.""
""They didn't like me, and they showed that by refusing to talk to me or look at me off stage. "I have never forgotten it... I mean, it makes no difference now. Graham's dead, and John is, unfortunately, a bitter old man. "I'm still pissed off about it. I think that shows that I am not good at letting things go because it was 60 years ago.""
Miriam Margolyes says she was treated differently at Cambridge University's Footlights, where John Cleese and Graham Chapman were members. She reports that they refused to talk to her or look at her off stage because she was "a larger-than-life woman" and women were a minority in the society. Margolyes describes feeling allowed rather than welcomed and recalls crying at home from the hurt. Her mother publicized her Footlights involvement, which Margolyes says angered Cleese and Chapman. Margolyes calls Cleese "a bitter old man" and says she remains upset decades later. John Cleese faced backlash in 2020 for posts about the transgender community on X (then Twitter).
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