May Pang "I Couldn't Compete With Yoko Ono" | John Lennon Former Mistress

foreign [Music] much is being made about John Lennon's personal life from Gossip to cold cash he is unauthorized biography by Albert Goldman he is number two on the bestseller list and imagine a candid documentary on Lenin will be released this week how the former Beetle lived and who he loved is filling volumes in the main character from one bizarre chapter a young woman named May Peng gave Geraldo Rivera the shocking inside details May Peng was just 22 years old a personal assistant to John and Yoko their marriage was on the rocks and as she tells it in her 1983 book loving John Yoko had a startling proposition for him in fact more of a demand become John's mistress and I just had this look on my face and said well I'm not interested in your husband and she says oh I know you're not after him but I know that he likes you and you will treat him right so you should go out with him she ordered you to have an affair with her husband yeah she thought it was the best thing since I didn't have a boyfriend May fell in love with John it wasn't long after that that Lennon moved out of the Dakota and lived Pang in Los Angeles and New York yoko's official comment she's thrown John out of the house John tell you that he was going to leave yoka they were talking about it yes we talked about in 74. did you think that he was going to divorce Yoko to be with you I let's put a bit of time I even considered anything of that did he fool around on you did he get date of the women he did that once or twice on me I don't remember John as ever being a kind of sexual Rover well he used to tell me he was oh yeah beneath all the laughter and fun May became acquainted with John's darker side his violent bouts with alcohol did he become physically abusive to you he did a couple of times yeah knock you around a bit he knocked he threw me against the wall sure didn't he become a blackout drunk I mean and not remember those things right he did that a couple of times he couldn't remember but that didn't happen every night John would always take himself to the brink for anything and then when he realizes that he didn't like the way things looked he would just back off about a year and a half after the start of this unique relationship London started backing off Yoko the woman he often called mother was calling him home you couldn't compete with you I couldn't compete with Yoko absolutely not I was too young you couldn't be a mother to Joe I didn't want to be and that's more important but we never lost our love for each other and that was important to me how do you know that you communicate with John after he went home yes we did a lot were you still lovers yes did Yoko know about it no Mae lives in New York now diligently pursuing an acting career she says John kept in touch with her until a few months before his tragic death eight years ago and if she had to do it all over again she would imagine opens Friday one day before what would have been Lenin's 48th birthday

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Published: Thu Jul 06 2023