John Lennon never mentioned girlfriend May Pang’s name, but she claimed they were involved until his death

In 1973 John Lennon A started relation with his assistant May Pang. His marriage to Yoko Ono had been on rocky ground for some time, and she suggested they take a break. For 18 months, Lennon wandered around Los Angeles with Pang by his side. Since then, she has often talked about their romance, claiming that the romance between them has never faded. Lennon’s close friend Elliot Mintz has very different memories of the relationship.

May Pang said her romance with John Lennon continued long after ‘The Lost Weekend’

According to Pang, Ono was the first to suggest it start a relationship with Lennon. Lennon was on board, but Pang said she had reservations. She explained that she cried the first time they slept together because she didn’t know where their romance would lead.

“I didn’t know where it would lead,” she said People. “I thought, ‘What’s going to happen?’ I was very pleased with the work. (But) he kept saying, ‘I don’t know where this will lead, but let’s just take the leap.’

Pang claimed that Ono’s presence still hangs over the case. She called frequently, speaking to both Pang and Lennon, to obtain updates. In 1975, she welcomed Lennon home to New York, and he accepted. When they resumed their marriage, Pang said yes this is not the end of her relationship with the former Beatle.

“He secretly came to see me. He said, ‘You know, I still love you,'” she said. “He would tell me things that were really very intimate and you could sense that there was something there. It bothered him. It was not a finished situation.”

John Lennon’s friend has different memories of his relationship with May Pang

Pang’s memories of the affair do not match Mintz’s. He was a close friend of Lennon and Ono in the 1970s.

“She published several books about her affair with John, discussed intimate details of it in documentaries, and gave hundreds of interviews about it,” Mintz wrote in his book We all shine: John, Yoko and me. “And if her account is to be believed, one inevitably gets the impression that for a time she was the red-hot center of John’s universe – that their romance was the pivot around which the entire Lost Weekend revolved. “I have no doubt she believes it’s true.”

Mintz said he liked Pang when he met her. Still, he didn’t think she was like that significant presence as she claimed, in Lennon’s life. He didn’t remember talking to Lennon about her even once.

“I can also say that after I dropped her and John off at (music manager Lou) Adler’s house and stopped briefly at the bank on the way to cash traveler’s checks, I rarely ran into her again in Los Angeles,” he wrote. “Perhaps even more tellingly, in all the years I knew John – until his final days – I cannot recall a single conversation in which he mentioned her name.”

He returned to Yoko Ono in 1975

After 18 months of extreme chaos, Lennon I moved in with Ono again. They missed each other.

“We found ourselves together again because it was diplomatically feasible. . . come on,” Lennon said Rolling Stone. “We got back together because we love each other.”

Lennon said his behavior – drinking, taking drugs and fighting, which made headlines – was a symptom of his broken heart. He was happy to be able to return to his life with Ono.

“(The breakup) didn’t work out. And the reaction to the breakup was all madness,” he said. “I was like a headless chicken.”