Cynthia Lennon Remembers Her Sad Relationship with an Abusive and Troubled John Lennon
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- Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, had mixed and often sad memories of her relationship with the famous Beatle due to several factors:
Emotional and Physical Abuse: Cynthia has recounted instances of John's abusive behavior, both emotional and physical. Early in their relationship, John reportedly hit Cynthia at least once, an action he later regretted and publicly acknowledged. The emotional abuse stemmed from John's often volatile and aggressive behavior, which could be hurtful and intimidating.
Infidelity: John Lennon was known to have been unfaithful during their marriage. This infidelity, including his well-publicized affair with Yoko Ono, which ultimately led to the dissolution of their marriage, caused significant emotional pain and public humiliation to Cynthia.
Neglect and Isolation: Cynthia often felt neglected and isolated due to John's commitments with The Beatles and his increasing immersion in the counterculture movements of the 1960s. As John's interests and lifestyle changed, particularly under the influence of Yoko Ono and other new acquaintances, Cynthia felt increasingly sidelined both emotionally and physically.
Public Scrutiny and Loss of Privacy: Being married to one of the most famous men in the world came with a high degree of public scrutiny, which often invaded their personal lives. This pressure exacerbated the challenges in their marriage and contributed to Cynthia's distress.
Divorce and Its Aftermath: The manner in which their marriage ended, with John's abrupt departure and the subsequent divorce, was particularly distressing for Cynthia. She was left to raise their son, Julian, largely on her own, with minimal support from John, which was a source of considerable hardship and sadness.
These elements combined to make Cynthia's memories of her relationship with John Lennon quite complex and often painful, despite also including moments of love and happiness, particularly in the early years of their relationship.
Interview provided for scholastic purposes.
In 2006 Alex Belfield was honoured to interview Cynthia Lennon about her new book 'Lennon' and her life with John.
In a rare, exclusive and moving interview, Cynthia talks about her love for Lennon and the subsequent abuse she suffered.
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What an extraordinary and articulate lady who raised a stellar son as well.
John DIDN'T deserve either of them.
I agree with you. Drugs turned John into a sorry human being. That said, both John and Paul were the two greatest singer/songwriter in pop music history.
@@JFF35753 That's subjective (there are many great songwriters and surely even more better singers) and doesn't have any bearing to the topic discussed here. Also, they weren't exactly ''pop''. Finally, we can't blame everything on drugs, didn't he become abusive negligent and cheating husband to her even before that? Maybe (probably) he was just not a good person, as simple as that.
Well said
A very gracious woman. Making excuses for a very nasty person. John was a “me” person. Didn’t have much empathy or sympathy for other people. What happened to him was his only concern. Look at how he treated Julian! I hope Cynthia is happy.
@francesm5978. Cynthia died in 2015.
Yes , he abandoned Julian like his father abandoned him .
People with bad fathers often become bad fathers.
John Lennon was evil. I don't know how someone as nice as David Bowie could have been friends with him.
Agreed. John had psychopathy... probably a sociopath. A talented sociopath.
She raised such an amazing son. Such a sweet and wise man, Julian is. All credit goes to his mom who raised him to be a great man in spite of his awful father.
John was indeed an awful father to Julian but he grew wiser over time and took out 5 years to raise his other son, Sean. He was human and had good and bad sides like everyone else, but characterizing him as an 'awful' person is an inaccurate description. He also did good things, like spending his own money on worldwide peace campaigns, and he appeared to be a good father to Sean.
@@MIB_63come on...charity begins from the home, fmly, your loved ones first!!!....NOT public charity where you get the accolades!
Sure everybody has both the positive & negative side but it seems Lennon has more of his hidden negatives wch he shud hv dealt with...until another like minded more vicious, more controlling & manipulative nasty Narc came into his life & took over & made him "see" for their own betterment & nothing, zero..to that former fmly he had left high & dry and best forgotten & sweep all his ugliness & hypocrisy under the rug.
@@MIB_63 it was propaganda, Sean was raised by a nanny and John spent most of his last years in bed with depression, ironically was pulling himself out of it in 1980.
Cynthia sounds so lovely. He didn't deserve her. That's only my opinion.
I agree
Yet y'all females like the bad boys 🤦♂️
@@GloriaLoftusYou’re absolutely right
We love you, Cynthia....always so sweet and kind. You were an angel in life and now an angel in heaven.
People need to stop rationalizing John's abusive treatment of Cynthia and Julian by saying "he had a tough childhood". Many, many kids go through a rough childhood with parental breakups.
And a lot of those kids are very screwed up and unable to have healthy relationships.
John’s situation was not just a “parental breakup.”
His father was out of the picture…abandoned him.
His mother also let him go when he was only 5 years of age. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, and then found out as a teenager that his mother lived basically around the corner and never sought him out . He sought HER out, and just when he was starting to feel attached to her again, she got run over by a car. Oh and the uncle he got close to also died when John was a young teen.
And you don’t understand what all of that does to a child’s mind? It’s not like John was given up at birth and adopted. The two parents he knew BOTH dumped him.
This would take 10 psychiatrists years to help any kid with all of that…but John had no psychiatric help as a child or teen.
Then just when the guy was getting insight and trying to heal-he got gunned down at age 40.
And here you are acting like he wasn’t a human being. Walk in his shoes.
Absolutely and most people try NOT to make the same mistakes with their children that their feckless parents did. Ultimately he was a spoiled selfish & delusional narcissist. It was in his dna & nothing to do with not having parents around.
There are millions of children, adopted, who know their parents gave them up, or "dumped" them , and who don't turn into mean adults.
It's like Prince Harry being excused because his Mummy died when he was almost 13.
Being "dumped" and adopted doesn't excuse bad behaviour.
I can't agree with the attitude that he treated Sean well when he was older, because he matured.
He treated Julian like crap until the day he died. No excuse for that.
Think how Julian felt, knowing he was the cast off and the little brother was the apple of Dad's eye, but Julian grew into a decent man.
And did so despite knowing he could have had so much more.
Lennon was a human being, thus imperfect, we know that, but he was also a selfish man and preferred to please himself instead of having the decency to give a damn for the child he fathered first.
He was arrogant, self centred and conceited. But human. Yeah. 🙄
That’s still not an excuse. I to was raised by my maternal grandparents and aunt and knew I wouldn’t pass my trauma onto my four kids. They also lost their father very young. Our oldest being 8,our twins 5 and our youngest 3. I managed to raise them on my own as a single mother to for them to be filled with unconditional love with empathy. They’re are 2 boys and 2 girls and treated them equally and also taught them to be respectful to others and independent in case something ever happened to me when they were growing up. Now they’re all adults and never gave me issues and are successful in their own ways.
@@delvaassante5699 Wow.
"Victimize" much?
I had an atrocious, abusive upbringing -- far, far worse than John Lennon could even imagine; that's no excuse or reason for abusing other people. Look at yourself, fix yourself, and stop ruining others' lives, which may have been worse than yours. I'm so tired of hearing about Lennon's problems and how bad his childhood was. Paul McCartney lost his mother when he was 14. He didn't use that as an excuse to be a d***head.
Very true, JL was incredibly emotionally immature, we can only wonder whether he would have matured, he was showing signs of doing so, shame that his friends and family, who he hurt so badly, were never able to get any closure.
It’s sad that it didn’t actually make him compassionate towards others instead.
@@TwinkleStarr3109 Exactly. He may have been a "genius," but he ended up doing the same thing to his own son as his father did, and worse. People tend to give talented people a pass for their behavior.
@@elainealibrandi6364 he may have made amends later in life, as he was murdered when he was still a younger man.
Compared to my father, a convicted imprisoned pedophile who was never in my life, John at least left his child some positive things . I’d take John Lennon over my father any day.
@@TwinkleStarr3109 I understand, and empathize. I wish my father had not been in my life, and my brother raped me for 10 years, with my parents' blessing, when I was a child. Myself, I still wouldn't take the lesser evil of John. I would like to have had a good family, but I broke the cycle and have a good life now with a loving partner and wonderful friends. Best wishes for a happy life. ♥
John sang about peace yet brought so much destruction to Cynthia and Julian
💔
The only destruction that John was guilty of came in depriving Cythia and Julian of his company. Obviously, they both loved him. And how does getting a divorce disqualify him for singing about peace?
@@Kermit_T_FrogI think being a wife beater disqualifies him lol
@@Kermit_T_FrogHe divorced Cynthia, not Julian. It wasn't fair for him not to be raised by his father, that was his right. It wasn't fair that he humiliated Cynthia either, he didn't even ask for a divorce or wanted to talk to her to tell her that he wanted to separate, he just sent the papers to a friend because he didn't want to deal with her.
@ Cynthis would not allow Julian to visit John while he was with Ono. They did get together when he was with Mae Pang. Everybody know this.
@Kermit_T_Frog It is not a reported fact by any of the parties involved. In fact Cynthia allowed Julian to travel to the US when John was back with Yoko, so that is not true. It was John who did not reach out to look for Julian, something he should have done when he moved to America and because Julian was a child and it was not appropriate for his own son to make such a long trip to see him especially if his father did not make the arrangements, then thanks to May communication was resumed and John was able to reestablish a visitation order. Before that, John spent too much time looking for Yoko's daughter to focus on Julian. It is quite misogynistic that you want to blame Cynthia who was the only one who took proper care of Julian.
Peace and love start at home, not sitting in a bed in front of the cameras preaching it to the rest of the world. The guy was an absolute phony.
Totally agree. He was a hypocrite about wealth, too. "Imagine no possessions, sharing all the world...." Yet he lived in unbelievable opulence in the Dakota.
Agree, preaching peace and love after beating his wife, abandoning her and his very own child, not to mention cheating on her tons of times.
Mark? I didn't know Attica allowed internet access.
No one knew him here so stop judging he is not here to defend himself
His childhood upbringing was an excuse, not a reason to behave the way he did as an adult.
And yoko tamed him?
I don't know if it was an excuse. It seems more of an explanation but not an excuse. His brain was wired in trauma. I wish he hadn't experienced that and stayed with Cynthia and Julian. Or at the least that he could have been stronger, maybe gotten the help he needed to overcome and stay with his family.
And you, what is your excuse?? Obviously you did not have a mother or father is that it??
Where is there a deeper reason that you feel entitled to pass moral judgment on a total stranger, who is long deceased?? ...... And we're just getting started with you... Cont'd
@@darlenealessio7609Yoko was a strong woman. All of his female family members were strong. Cynthia was soft and sweet.
Everybody handles pain differently. It's not an excuse. It's a fact. We can't judge. We weren't there. This is little snippets of his life.
He was raised by dominating women, makes sense why he got with Yoko.. she seemed familiar, she seemed like home
More than one person in his inner circle has said Yoko was a lot like his aunt Mimi. Cynthia was a bit . . . grown up, kind of like a mother more than a wife, according to Patti Boyd (Harrison.) I reckon John had a type.
Yoko was the mother he was looking for
Cynthia didn’t do drugs, let alone hard drugs. It’s not that she was a mostly a mother figure to John. Drugs were a problem for their marriage because she wouldn’t join in and she had Julian to protect. So she was categorised as ‘ uncool ‘. Yoko offered him that and a way out of all the stress of working hard consistently but she combined that with a way to keep the high level of self esteem - be a man, the man publicly, of world peace. He actually told the other three Beatles at one point that he was Jesus. Be avant guarde, too…like she presented herself as. Be special in that, way. Yes, she was a mother figure - he called her ‘ mother’ but she combined Mimi’s dominance with his late mother Julia’s remoteness. ( physically and emotionally, in his childhood and later, when she was tragically killed in a road accident.) As the original comment here said, “..she seemed like home”. ( Yoko). Cynthia was warm, loving, patient, present, empathetic and actually not, conventional but it wasn’t enough. In fact, the normality of that was alien to him. I think that Cynthia was the woman he loved. Yoko was the woman he needed. Was Yoko good for all his other personal relationships ? Definitely not. Good for his career and outstanding talent ? No. His health ? At 5 ft 11 he weighed only under 140 pounds when he died. He wanted, to be thin but the advice about a macrobiotic diet from Yoko probably didn’t help. Who said publicly where and when they’d be at recording sessions for ‘ Double Fantasy’ ? Yoko. Their security guy was horrified especially as she refused extra security. “ You’ve told every nutjob out there, where you’ll both be and when”.
Yoko got with John at exactly the right moment, before anyone could refer him to an excellent psychiatrist and therapist.
he deserved Yoko not loving good Cynthia
He was a horrible person to Julian.
And Yoko Ono was ever worse.
What a wonderful woman she was a forgiving and understanding young woman and incredably loving and supportive mother Julian had nothing but the best things to say about his mother's love he misses her so much.
I trauma bonded too with my son's father without either of us knowing the details. He too turned his back on his son and I raised him alone. It is sad and it is hard. God bless you Cynthia and your son 💜
She was way too good for him.
She was very beautiful, very well-adjusted, very intelligent, and very far ahead of John Lennon in her development as an adult.
It was probably for the best that it ended sooner than later, for Cynthia's sake.
And John got the woman he deserved, Yoko Ono was a deeply disturbed person
@tangospirit22 Was she? What makes you say that? Isn't she simply different? An avant-garde artist-- she's bound to be off-putting to many people.
They always pick this type joyful intelligent able and beautiful well adjusted so sad CO-Dependency
@darlenealessio7609 In a sense, without defending him, it's kind of understandable, isn't it? Because oftentimes even a traumatized narcissist who has big drives to abuse others (in retaliation, I would think) can recognize something that's good for him. And maybe a part of him actually wanted the pleasant ordinary life that Cynthia offered.
But eventually, with someone of John Lennon's temperament and history of neglect, the anger must come out. And it did. With Cynthia as the target.
I'm glad for John Lennon and all who knew him that in the later years of his life he seemed definitely to be making real progress with his conflicts and his temper.
But what is too late is too late. ..
Complex and don't play him off as a victim because of his childhood. Your either kind or your not.
I admire Cynthia. She is very articulate and describes the personality EXTREMELY well.
A beautiful lady inside and out. Julian is just great. Cynthia raised a terrific son. RIP 💖
I would never leave her for whatever her name is
He was a textbook narcissist.
He was, you're right. Yet, many unusually talented and visionary people are highly narcissistic. Thus they break through with their art or their words, and often enough they flash out soon after.
I like to think that he was learning to be a better man at the end of his life. It seemed so. He'd begun to do something that indicates maturity: he'd begun to express regret for his past.
yes, i never thought of it that way....dunno if you have seen early videos of he and Yoko....he treated her like rubbish.
And married another in Yoko.
@@feanorian21maglor38 crow sits with crow. Pigeon with pigeon. We all can find a soul made in somebody who reminds us our spiritual imperfection from taking drugs to sex in the city. I believe Cynthia was not like that. She was decent, moral, and grounded. Peace and love ( without drugs and sex in the city).
Borderline personality disorder
What's with the shitty AI pictures? Can you just show Cynthia talking or something
The future of TH-cam. All AI.
I gather this is from a radio interview from 2006. Video images would be more distracting in my opinion.
As an aside, Alex Belfield, the interviewer here is now in prison, at time of writing.
@@leejohnson3209 ok I can appreciate that.
John Lennon actually had quite a cushy, middle class upbringing, not as terrible as he liked people to believe. Cynthia was a nicer person and deserved a partner who treated her better, but some women aren’t attracted to nice, safe men and prefer to go for the bad boys!
“Cushy” can be miserable when one lacks connections/truly loving relationships
Maybe that's correct with the word "cushy" but John for sure wasn't poor.
He hurt both Cynthia and Julian
She was attractive that's more than you could say about Yoko
Probably a better singer too and doesn’t pretend to be an artist.
ono was a very strong woman i think lennon liked that
I never liked Yoko
Face like a slapped arse with hair round.
@@roywatson8133 John and Yoko were two narcs together. Interestingly, Yoko seemed the one who wore the pants in that couple.
I remember as a child watching the London palladium on the TV , the beatles were on, and john was making fun of disabled people, and I remember cringing while he was mimicking them the disabled people who struggled to talk or walk properly, I'm disabled myself with a chronic lung condition which ment that I was sent to a school with people like myself, we did have a boy with polio and a girl who had no legs. But we never thought anything of it. To us, we were normal. I stopped liking the beatles after that, John lennon gave me a comlex about myself for many years.
I didn't know this Carole. How absolutely awful. I hope that life and people were kinder to you in adulthood 🤗
Between the ages 1 to 7 and you have the man. How true. Those early years are our most influential and formative years. Sad but true for some of us 😊🙏
Actually, a lot of a person comes earlier than that with genes and the womb environment.
Cyn got Julian from this relationship and Julian is her soul mate. She raised an amazing, compassionate, gentle man in Juilan. He must miss his Mother terribly.
John was a horrible father and a narcissist through and through!
John spoke clearly about his failures as a father with Julian. And he states that he wanted to be and do so much better with Sean.
Of course he came a long way. But that still doesn't mean he was magically healed..... We can judge all we want and COMPARE all we want.... But humans are vastly complicated, complex ( more than we know!!!!) and, sadly ( to me anyway) far far too Needy and high maintenance.
Like it or not we have specific psychological Needs, which when not met, DO NOT GO AWAY!
You accept and believe that a deficiency in calcium may/will cause broken bones even though years may go by and you have not seen the adverse effects of these UNMET NEEDS ( for calcium )
The same is true for ALL YOUR NEEDS and not just bodily physical needs.
Hopefully if we have not already made this planet unlivable for humans.... We will soon come to an understanding and acceptance of the VERACITY and legitimacy of our mental emotional psychological NEEDS and the attendant consequences ( mental illness, 'stunted' growth personal & interpersonal etc) of unmet needs. 💥💥💥💥💥💥
But for now maybe we can just
GIVE OTHERS less perfect than us
A BREAK!? 🙏
Interesting story, and Cynthia has such a lovely voice, I could listen to her for hours.
John Lennon was a creep.
John should have matured rather than becoming Yoko's narcissistic supply.
She is a sweetie ❤
She comes across as a really amazing caring person it's a shame that the hurt little John couldn't see that and he left her his life could've been better with the unconditional love and support she gave him. He wrote love songs and he had all the love he needed with her but deep within he didn't love himself
Simple, he was a total s...t
I find it hard to believe that John left an English Rose for a left-feild avant garde _Ojosama._ Cynthia was sweet and intelligent. It's a shame they couldn't work it out.
We all have trauma.
Very true.
“You can’t do that” is a song that shows how jealous and possessive he was.
I didn’t pay attention to the words until recently!
She was so beautiful, and every young girl was jealous of her!! But she was an amazing woman in spite of John!!!
The only problem was that she was an adult and Lennon wasn't. Also Lennon's father rejected him and abandoned the family.
Lennon's father rejected John, and John rejected his own son. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And Lennon's mother rejected him, too.
But yet John went on to have Sean with Yoko and seemed to be a good father to him? Perplexing at best.
And his mother!
@@barbara5495People grow up, they change.
She's still pretty cordial about him when he certainly didn't deserve it! Nobody lnows how abusive he was and I'm glad they telling it!😢
She's very well spoken! No scouse there!
She was from Hoylake
I can hear occasional Scouse in her voice.
She was such a decent person. She deserved a normal man. John broke her heart. But, typical. Girls like to go out with the bad boys, not the studious nerds.
We must stop thinking we can fix them
She was too good for him..and he chose Yoko..🤢
She sure was and I think he knew it to.
He was such a fng hyprocrite over here preaching about " sToP wAr pEaCe aNd lOvE pEaCe aNd lOvE " like i have a lot to say about you that say the opposite huh johnny boi? :/
He was actually pretty open about the fact that he wasn't such a nice guy. Not all his songs are about peace and love. He talked about the negative side of his past in later interviews too. I don't necessarily believe his personal flaws mean his ideals were false. I didn't have him on a pedestal in the first place, so I have no need to kick him off of it.
You know what's really funny? In the 70s, two separate CIA agents were assigned the task of spying on him and his "radical" activities. In the end, both of them said he talked a good game but didn't seem really interested in anything but sitting around doing drugs.
I wish the US had deported him for narcotics or something; it would have saved his life. Then again, Chapman would have chosen some other celebrity to kill instead.
@@camlam5269Imagine is about Marxism
I think what she describes, he had bipolar. Mood swings, aggression, artistic ability, along with ADHD.
No. Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
@@yl5020I think maybe both?
Bipolar doesn’t make a person abusive. It could have something to do with it but is not an excuse for abusing people
The best John did was actually to leave Cynthia and Julian. For their sake. Cyn remarried a few times and Julian got good stepfathers in his place. John knew more than everyone that he was flawed man inside and out. Instant karma struck him.
I remember back then I thought he was crazy leaving her for Yoko.
Back then? I still wonder that. Maybe misery loves company
Lennon sounds like Not a good human being
Good for him for not having kids. He selflessly doesn't want to force someone to experience the pain he's experienced.
But he had 2
John was absolutely a talented man.. he definitely earned his credit for that as a musician ..but as a human a husband a father ..who of us excel in our roles whatever they are as humans.. John was simply a human battered with emotional scars and bruises just like most of us.. maybe if he'd lived he could've mended many of his human flaws and made peace with his son and x wife.. my very own parents weren't great examples neither am I myself as a parent.. we're all flawed our lives are just not in the limelight like Lennon's was ..not making excuses for him .. who of us hasn't had regrets at some point in our lives..
Er, John was never 'normal'. He was a sociopath.
Interesting viewpoints. But the AI is horrible and does not contribute anything to the storytelling. Just distracts from the voice and the authentic content for the sake of these ridiculously fake images.
Does anyone know if Cynthia Lennon ever met Linda McCartney? I've never seen any photographic record of it..i know that Paul and Julian would know. It seems like they would've become fast friends
I’m pretty sure they never met, although Paul would go over to see Cynthia & Julian.
Linda didn't come into the picture until John was with Yoko. Cynthia was close with Jane Asher, though.
I went to lunch and am still at the diner when I heard him say the Beatles were more famous tgan Jesus.
He went on to be an equally abusive father as well...real hero to look up to.
No resources or therapy for kids back then. Not excusing terrible behavior and acting out though.
Very sad. She and Julian deserved much better.
it has to be so painful to have been in an abusive relationship, and then to be brought up over and over again buy journalists, and whom ever. come on, who in their right mind asks a person, " were you in fear when he hit you" , what a disrespectful question.
He was a narcissistic brute .
Classy woman.
I never understood why losing a parent was a License to be a dick.. is the world really that bad?
Cyn has a beautiful voice
Lennon. A typical narcissist. But a talented man.
In interviews he's constantly cutting up. Back then people thought he was confident and arrogant. Now you can see it's just his insecurity and him trying to disguise his anxiety. Many people use humor as a mask for their sadness.
I've had to actually train myself not to be like that, especially since I don't know where the line is sometimes and I overstep. I could talk about the reasons for that, but I'm an adult and try to do better (and recognize when I see other people doing it, too.) ✌️
Smart people are often complex and a bad childhood adds to that complexity. Try to remember that without his personality, there would be no genius and no Beatles. Cynthia sounds like a woman who knows what it is to forgive.
A beautiful, elegant lady who raised a wonderful son . I admire Lennon as an artist but that's where any admiration stops especially the more i learn about him .
A pretty nasty individual. Nobody should have to walk on eggshells in a relationship wondering what mood the other person will be in on any given day .
He had a terrible childhood. Many people had difficult childhoods and grow up to be decent, kind and loving .
He didn't like Homosexuals . Perhaps he had a skeleton in his own closet which he suppressed throughtout his life . He did go on a holiday alone with Beatles manager Brian Epstein who was himself homosexual .
Julian looks so like her.
Why can nobody see? He was a narcissist who had talent. If it wasn't for that he would just be a narcissist.
She was so lovely and articulate. She supported him when the Beatles were struggling before they made it big. Once he became famous and wealthy, he discarded her like a bag of garbage. And their son Julian too. I admire John Lennon’s music. But as a man, he was a scumbag.
Team Cynthia. 🤨
he was no prize. neither to her or to their son Sean.
Sean is Yoko’s son, not Cynthia’s. Julian is Cynthia and John’s.
@@pattii55 I know. But he behaved very badly to his then wife Cynthia and his forever son Julian.
@@normadesmond6017 I'm well aware of that fact. He ignored them and focused on Yoko and Sean. Julian had far more talent.
Their eyesight was the same? 😂
He was immature and insecure. He was an abuser and jealous but had no problem cheating on her in their marriage bed. It's a bit disappointing that she didn’t love herself enough to know she deserved kindness. She cried on Paul's shoulder after finding Yoko in her bathrobe in bed with John as they laughed at her. Paul felt so bad for her, and he declared that he would marry her. She should have agreed. She would have had the better behaved, better looking, and more talented Beatle. Love truly is blind.
But Paul was awful with Jane too. Cheating on her after asking her to marry him.
John liked only ugly and mean women because of his phycological problems. Maybe deep inside he hated himself and wanted to be hurt. Being abundant as a young boy leaves a lot of emotional scars. Cynthia was the only one who was right for him but he could not see it.
More Lennon character assassination. Cynthai Lennon insisted that John was NOT abusive. When asked if she hated him, she seemed surprised that the question was even asked. I forget her exact words, but it was something like, "What reason would I possibly have for hating him?"
If ever there was a case of childhood trauma affecting adult life John's was it, so very sad😢
She was beautiful.
Love is all you need my @ss. People NEVER, EVER PUT ANY STOCK IN CELEBRITIES.
Agreed.
The interviewer was super insensitive when he just bluntly said 'he beat you up'
Seems Cynthia would've been better for John, more healing, than Yoko, who was really interested in herself. John was jealous, no need to be jealous of Yoko, maybe that was easier for him.
It's funny to think that so many people thought the Beatles' hair was long. Amnesia from earlier times when men had much longer hair. It must've also been a shock when just a few years later and many young men would have much longer hair.
I had no idea he was abusive verbally and physically towards Cythina. #smh
Wow. "I wasn't afraid of him...he just smacked me across the face."
Also nobody ever talks about and or doesn't know about the fact that Ringo Starr admitted in a 1990's TV interview that he had been so drunk that he beat his second wife actress Barbara Bach so badly and that he was so drunk that he could have killed her and he wouldn't even have known it!
He and Barbara were both drug addicts and alcoholics and so they both went to rehabs and Barbara got a masters degree in psychological counseling from UCLA in 1993.
They had a Sweet beginning ❤
I always thought he was an a**hole. Turns out he was indeed.
Why all the horrible A.I. manipulated photos?
Both Cynthia and John lost a parent when they were 17. And so did their son Julian! A family line pattern here?
Why has the photo of John at 1:05 had makeup added. There is definitely blue added around his eyes and his lips have lipstick tinge to them. Very bizarre.
It's probably just a black and white photo that's been colorized imperfectly.
John was very damaged
SO MUCH time wasted with John Lennon, as with Pattie Boyd: so much time wasted with George Harrison. The only sensible and true one was Jane Asher who, intelligently, tried to love herself before loving Paul McCartney: With the first material proof of betrayal came the public separation.
RATING 1000 for Jane Asher !!!!
Also ringo hit his girlfriend barbra bach literaly bleeding he was drunk or something but for go to that point other terrible things have to happen way before that, so is not excuse why she don't leave her? Or something
Getting pregnant when she did was the absolute worst thing she could have done. All children are gifts but Beatlemania was starting to kick in and the Beatles were just working and performing or recording and touring and he just was NOT going to be around whatever his intentions were and worse for John being the self centered narcissist bastard that he was his intention were to just escape his responsibilities.
Your language implies that she did it on purpose. She certainly doesn't seem to have been that kind of person. Especially in those days, when getting pregnant without being married was considered shameful and scandalous. John said (cruelly, from Julian's perspective) that Julian came from a whiskey bottle on a Saturday night. IOW, they drank too much and probably neglected to use birth control. The suggestion that Cynthia tried to "trap" him is unwarranted.
Funny how we act like we know people we've never actually met
John said the same thing about himself.
Getting pregnant when she did... wait,what! So it's Cynthia's fault??? John didn't help
@@cindienolin564 I agree it's both of their faults but in all honesty the woman carries and has the child. She could've prevented having a baby or wanting to have a baby while they were still young and John was still busy touring at the height of beatlemania. Lots of woman tend to force a man to settle down and hog all of their attention and basically use them for life while the guy is busy trying to do the one thing keeping the family afloat. I have little doubts that John left Cynthia because she was too clingy or needy knowing the type of life he lived and that she probably was trying to hog his attention and prioritize him being a gentlemen over everything else. Again it's both of their fault for having the baby and they clearly could've done better, stayed together and made it work out somehow its just unlikely and if anything John got the divorce because life was too much to handle. He himself said he wrote Help! because he was insecure and unstable. So I just assume instead taking the weight off she leaned on the famous Beatle and put more weight on his shoulders when he already had alot.
Imagine trading this adorable lady for Yoko Ono.
John the trainwreck. Yoko did her a favor...
Not to make excuses for John Lennon but what the hell is your problem if you went through all that trauma too and they didn't have the Psychological Services that they do today. You don't have to be a disrespectful jerk say Yoko did her a favor.
John the best artist of the 20th century, John the guy who did the right thing and married his girlfriend when she found out she was pregnant, John the guy who'd just lost his mother....
@jessecalarco9091 He is right. Many of us suffered terrible abuse and didn't hurt others. Stop with the excuses. He and Yoko were self serving and perfect for each other. Both abandoned their children. Enough of worshiping this man.
@@julesjma it is individuals such as yourself that make it very hard to be respectful on this platform. What are your feelings hurt ? If it wasn't for John Lennon we wouldn't have the Beatles, if it wasn't for John Lennon we wouldn't have some of the world's best music out there. Those are facts. Now let's try to properly educate somebody apparently as clueless as you: read Cynthia Lennon's second book on Lennon and that will give you all the answers you need. But I'll give you some just so you can ponder what has occurred. The reason why I said not to make excuses for John however if you are a 5-year-old child and you are forced to choose between your mother and father is absolutely traumatizing to a young child. Furthermore his Aunt Mimi was a cold woman and did not give him the affection he desperately needed, furthermore lost his mother just when he needed her most, lost his best friend when he needed him most, lost his Uncle George when he needed him the most and last but not least John Lennon at least was honest and got out in front of it and admitted to his mistakes and was just forming a closer bond to his first son Julian and even reaching out to Cynthia until some scumbag nut bag took his life before he was able to fully reconciliate and rectify everything. Now stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
In their relationship Yoko was the dominent one, John used to call her ‘Mother’.
Is not an excuse that his father abandon them.
A traumatic childhood, plus he showed signs of a bit of bipolar.
I think Complex PTSD, which if not treated, or badly treated, can become bi polar
Mercy, mercy, please. It seems John had profound childhood losses. Through his youth, he covered his grief and fears with bravado that often came out as bitter sarcasm and cruel anger. As a young man he would mug drunks and, when one resisted, John beat him severely then feared he'd left the man for dead. His moderate poly-substance use disorder was growing at this time, a disease which he'd try in vain to control. His brilliant wit and songwriting talent enabled him to use the Beatles to build a broad support network which enabled his addictive disease. As his disease became severe he became increasingly violent, seeking bar fights as entertainment with his friend Harry Nillson. He once grabbed Peter Lawford by the collar and put his fist to Lawford's face (Lennon sent an explicit apology the next day which confirms the story). Demonstrating hippie values was a feeble best effort to counter his rage and self-hatred; he was powerless over his childhood grief and illness, and his addictions were enabled by so many people, that he didn't stand a chance. -Doug Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
His music was good, but he wasn't a very nice person.