Yoko Ono ‘told her late Beatles star husband John Lennon how to take heroin after experiencing ‘a beautiful feeling’ with the drug for the first time’
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Yoko Ono allegedly told the late John Lennon how to take heroin, according to a new book about his band The Beatles.
A number of new excerpts from the book All You Need Is Love have been published by The Sunday times.
The book includes interviews from the early 1980s with former Beatles members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as John’s widow Yoko.
In an interview, Yoko, now 91 – who was married to John from 1969 until his death in 1980 – told John how to take heroin, but denied that she “put John on H,” which she claims John’s bandmate George did to her had accused of it.
She added that John “wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it.”
Yoko Ono allegedly told the late John Lennon how to take heroin, according to a new book about his band The Beatles (John and Yoko pictured in 1970)
In an interview, Yoko, now 91 – who was married to John from 1969 until his death in 1980 – told John how to take heroin, but denied that she had ‘put John on H’ (John and Yoko pictured in 1980)
According to the excerpt from the interview published by The Sunday Times, Yoko had “smelled” heroin for the first time in Paris, saying she had “a beautiful feeling” as a result of the drug.
She said: ‘It was just a nice feeling. So that’s what I told John.’
Yoko said John would ask her about her experiences using heroin, adding that she thought he “wanted to take it, that’s why he asked.”
The artist added that they “never injected” the Class A drug.
MailOnline has contacted Yoko representatives for comment.
In 1970, John had a telling memory of the first time he used heroin Rolling stone it was ‘not that fun’ and he ‘never injected anything’.
He said: ‘We would sniffle a bit when we were really hurting.
“We’ve had such a hard time with everyone, and so much has come down on me, and on Yoko, especially on Yoko.
George Harrison allegedly accused Yoko of helping John get heroin (The Beatles members (L-R) Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon pictured in 1967)
“Like Peter Brown in our office – and you can put this in – he comes in after six months and shakes my hand and doesn’t even say hello to her.
“That goes on all the time.”
John added, “And we get so much pain that we have to do something about it.
‘And that happened to us.
‘We took “H” because of what the Beatles and others did to us.
“But we got out.”
The book All You Need is Love was written by two members of the Beatles’ inner circle, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines, who first interviewed the band’s members for the 1983 book, The Love You Make.
It was not well received by the band or fans, and their devotees dubbed it ‘The Muck You Rake’.
According to The Sunday Times, Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Linda “torn the book apart and burned it in the fireplace page by page” after it was published.