Yoko Ono says in a new book on the Beatles that includes never-before-heard interviews from the 1980s that she introduced then-husband John Lennon to heroin, telling him she experienced a “beautiful feeling” on the drug.
Ono, 91, denied in the interview that she “put John on H,” according to excerpts from “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words” released by The Sunday Times, adding that the Beatles member “wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it.”
The book also includes interviews with band members Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison as well as their families and business associates conducted by Peter Brown, COO of Apple Corp, the Beatles’ financial empire, and Steven Gaines in 1980 and 1981.
Lennon was assassinated in 1980.
Ono said in one of the interviews that she first “had a sniff of” the drug in Paris and told Lennon, whom she was married to from 1969 until his death in 1980, “It was just a nice feeling. So I told John that.’
In an Interview with Rolling Stone published in January 1971, Lennon said heroin “just was not too much fun,” adding that they only “sniffed a little when we were in real pain.”
He said the couple did heroin “because of what the Beatles and others were doing to us. But we got out of it.”
A representative for Ono told Fox News Digital they had no comment.
“All You Need is Love,” described as a “groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time,” and written by Brown and Gaines, will be out April 9.
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