Peter Sellers was chasing “the ultimate orgasm” in 1964. He ended up suffering what he later described as eight cardiac arrests. His wife, Britt Ekland, said he had used poppers before sex that night. The 38-year-old survived, but his recovery forced him out of Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid. Ray Walston replaced him, and Sellers was told to rest for months. Wilder’s reported response was brutal: “You have to have a heart before you can have an attack.” Sellers returned to acting later that year, but heart problems continued throughout his life. He died after another heart attack in July 1980, aged 54.