John Lennon’s love life was not entirely straightforward. That’s one of the myths surrounding the Beatles member. His complicated divorce from his first wife Cynthia is a story in itself. The relationship with Yoko Ono has long fueled the theory that Lennon is largely to blame for the Beatles eventually going their separate ways.
Now, a new documentary confirms the long-running story that John Lennon had an affair alongside Yoko Ono for several months. As can be seen in the trailer for “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story”, the intense flirtation with his personal assistant May Pang, who was 10 years his junior, was even initiated by Yoko Ono in 1972 – i.e. after the end of the Beatles.
“Yeah, Yoko approached me, and I thought that was crazy,” Pang says, according to ET Canada. “I told her I wasn’t interested at all. They had problems in their marriage, they stopped talking to each other. But John spontaneously decided to come to LA himself and asked me to start an affair with him.”
Yoko Ono did not expect deep feelings from John Lennon
The documentary’s title, “Lost Weekend,” hints at a fixed term Lennon would use whenever he recalled trips with friends (including Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper and Harry Nilsson) and of course Pang in Los Angeles reported. Little did Ono know at first that their time with the songwriter’s assistant turned into a deeper love affair.
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However, after Yoko Ono found out that her husband and Pang had more heart palpitations than expected, she did her best to win him back. According to reports, however, she initially wanted a divorce in 1974. Lennon even told Pang that he would be a free man in a matter of months. But the whirlwind romance ended as quickly as it began. Lennon and Ono got back together, rekindling their love.
Even though May Pang suffered for years from having to keep the truth to herself and was denounced as a liar by some of her contemporaries when she dared to tell about her experiences, she says she really enjoyed her time with John Lennon. She also wrote two autobiographies, so the story should be familiar to Beatles fans.
“Let’s put it this way: my time with John may have been very short, but everything during that time was amazing,” she told ET Canada. “I was there when he jammed with Paul for the last time… I played tambourine with Mal Evans. We saw UFOs together.”
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story hits theaters in North America on June 10th. A start in Germany is not yet known. The film is not yet available to stream.