Craig McLaughlin

The director had just directed another show.

None of his cast would speak to him.

Think about that.

These are people who know not a thing, pardon my language, about what played out in that criminal court, but they've decided

I'm the Ivan Millat of Australian show business.

I was left with no choice.

And I said to John, I cannot have these people, this lovely director who I got on famously with, I cannot stand.

If you're not going to stand up for them, which he didn't,

He and I always had such a great relationship, genuinely great relationship.

We could laugh together.

I was lucky enough to be his leading man in probably, if we crunch the numbers, his biggest financial success, which was a thing called Grease the Arena Spectacular in 1998.

We had a great relationship.

And so when the Cluedo thing came up and on the phone, John was so convincing that it's time.

He said, it's time.

It's time.

Why shouldn't you be on the stage?

I believed him.

We had a meeting with some of the key production personnel in his office that he was supposed to attend.

He never attended.

They tried to call him.