Yoko Ono details pain of post-Beatles life with John Lennon in new documentary
Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and the 92-year-old widow of the late John Lennon – took the brunt of the vitriol when The Beatles broke up in 1970, and details revealed in a new documentary film “One to One: John & Yoko” highlight her personal struggle.
Audio recordings from the early 1970s – the years that immediately followed the Beatles’ split – are featured in new documentary “One to One: John & Yoko,” out Friday, in which Ono discusses the harassment she faced. While her presence during Beatles recording sessions in the late 1960s famously caused tension, Ono always denied playing such a starring role in the end of the Fab Four.
“I’m supposedly the person who broke up the Beatles, you know? When I was pregnant, many people wrote to me saying, ‘I wish you and your baby would die,’” Ono says in the film.
She goes on to say that when she’d walk down the street with Lennon, “people came to me saying things like I’m ‘an ugly Jap.’ They pulled my hair and hit my head and I was just about to faint.”
Around that time, she added, she suffered three miscarriages.
Source: cnn.com/Alli Rosenbloom
