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October 23, 2024 at 11:20am EDT
While John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s marriage was on the cover of dozens of newspapers (who remembers that iconic Rolling Stone cover from 1981?), many details of their marriage are still under wraps to this day. In fact, a new book from the couple’s close friend Elliot Mintz, titled We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, is dishing on some never-heard-before conflicts between them.
At one point in the book, Mintz remembered a 1972 party they all attended to watch the presidential election between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. According to Mintz, their viewing party took a turn when Nixon began to win by a landslide.
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Angry with the result, Lennon reportedly got drunk and had “loud, raucous sex,” with another woman in the bedroom next door, per People.
“Throughout it all, Yoko sat on the sofa, in stunned, mortified silence, as other guests began awkwardly getting up to leave — until they realized that their coats were in the bedroom where John was having sex,” Mintz recalled. Mortifying doesn’t even begin to cover what that must’ve felt like!
“He was placing [his wife] in the most embarrassing position that you could ever place a woman in,” Mintz told the outlet. “Having a romp in the hay in another room with thin walls while your wife was attending a small party and could hear everything.”
“Yoko is a very stoic woman, but it would have severe consequences,” Mintz continued. At the time, Lennon and Ono had been married for three years since 1969. The pair continued to be married until Lennon’s tragic murder in 1980.
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Lennon’s cheating, therefore, wasn’t enough to cause them to split, but it surely changed their relationship. “I can forgive him, but I don’t know if I can ever forget what happened,” Ono told Mintz at the time. “I don’t know if it will ever be the same.”
‘We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me’ by Elliot Mintz
Looking back, Mintz thinks Lennon’s reaction to the incident was a sort of acceptance, an acknowledgment that he wasn’t always perfect. “The reality is as I would learn over the years in the bad behavior department, John would say to me, ‘Ellie,’ which is what he called me, ‘I’m not always the ‘Imagine’ guy,'” Lennon would say.
“Don’t get me wrong, much of the time, he was the person that we related to, who wrote ‘Imagine’ and expressed his vision of the kind of world where we would all like to live,” Mintz added. “But he didn’t always stay there. He was imperfect.”
“It’s one of the reasons, by the way, we all fell in love with him,” his longtime friend said. “Because he was real.”
Imperfections aside, there’s no excuse for putting your wife in such a compromising position.
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