US EditionPaul McCartney Says Yoko Ono Told Him John Lennon 'Might Have Been Gay'
Paul McCartney recalled Yoko Ono’s 1980 call suggesting John Lennon might have been gay, a claim McCartney disputed based on his personal experience.
- In a Vanity Fair interview originally conducted in 2015, Paul McCartney recalled Yoko Ono phoning him shortly after John Lennon died and saying 'You know, I think John might have been gay'.
- Longstanding rumours arose from Lennon’s friendship with Beatles manager Brian Epstein and a 1963 Spain trip, with Ono previously telling The Daily Beast she thought Lennon felt attraction to men.
- McCartney rejected the suggestion, noting he had 'slept with John very often, but there was never anything' and recalled Lennon got 'a lot of girl action' while sharing beds common on early Beatles tours.
- The interview’s republication last week coincided with Man on the Run, documentary about Paul McCartney, and he has reflected on his past, revisiting footage of Linda McCartney, late wife, and their children.
- Given Lennon’s life and death, McCartney said Ono probably made the claim 'while in a state of grief', as Lennon married Ono in March 1969 and was shot on December 8, 1980.
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Paul McCartney has sparked outrage among Beatles fans after resurfacing a controversial claim once made by Yoko Ono about her husband John Lennon’s sexuality. The unexpected revelation quickly ignited heated reactions online, with many fans questioning why the topic was brought up decades after Lennon’s tragic passing and accusing McCartney of speaking about a former bandmate who is no longer here to respond. One furious commenter wrote, “Paul M…
John Lennon, may have been gay...Shocking claim from Japanese wife Ohllywood OSEN=Sun Mi-kyung Reporter An interesting claim has been made about the sexual preferences of legendary Beatles member John Lennon. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Paul McCartney said that he had been in the relationship with John Lennon for over 10 years before his death in 1980.
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