How to Make a John Waters Story Even More Epic

You just add Angela Lansbury and a notorious New York "dungeon like" sex club.

Much like all John Waters stories, this story is kind of sweet, very respectful, and profoundly weird.

Legendary filmmaker John Waters has claimed he once saw the late icon Angela Lansbury in a “dungeon-like sex club” in New York City.

Waters first revealed that he saw Lansbury, who tragically died at the age of 96 on 11 October, in the sex club Hellfire in the eighties in his 2019 book Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.

However he revealed to Page Six on Tuesday (18 October) that her presence in the club – which catered to “gay and straight perverts alike” – was not surprising, but “welcoming”.

The Pink Flamingos director told the outlet: “[Lansbury] was pure class even 40 years ago when these kind of clubs were all the rage.

“It may have been the only night she was ever there, but just her presence made Hellfire a little more welcoming.”

He added that it was not uncommon to see “lots of celebrities” at clubs like Hellfire, explaining that he had also seen Andy Warhol and Truman Capote at the sex club.

“Everybody went. She wasn’t doing anything,” Waters added.

John Waters is the Patron Saint of Baltimore.