And John being away, the house was far too large for me to handle on my own. That takes you from one extreme of life to another extreme. So the first thing to do is, if you're a pop star and you get a lot of money, you buy a mansion. I mean, we moved into a virtual mansion, you know, as soon as the money came in. But the problem with me was that I had to cope with a household. You know, I'd sometimes go away with John on holiday. The Record In Other News: Happy 70th Birthday, John LennonĪnd I had Julian, who I love dearly, and cared for him most of the time, when I was there. Here are some excerpts of Cynthia Lennon's 1985 Fresh Air interview. "And I had to do a bit of a double take it was a very strange feeling." "Following John's death, I had an experience of coming downstairs in the house I lived in North Wales, and was sitting at a piano with his back to me, and he was singing a very soulful song," Cynthia said. One experience was particularly spooky - but it never happened again. Cynthia said she could see a lot of John in Julian. She developed her work as a designer and Julian launched his own music career. Twelve years later, John Lennon was assassinated at age 40.Ĭynthia remarried several times. "I mean, because I didn't have any anger or bitterness about it," she says. But Cynthia says she didn't stop loving John, caring for him, or worrying about him. In 1968, after John fell in love with Yoko Ono, Cynthia and John divorced.
"And when he did come home, he was so exhausted and so tired and so overwhelmed by the pressures of the outside world that. "We saw very little of him," Cynthia said. John was either on the road touring or in the recording studio, according to Cynthia, and it was "extremely difficult for him." She was 75.ĭuring the years John spent touring the world as a member of the most popular rock group in history, Cynthia was at home raising their son, Julian. I'm somebody else.'"Ĭynthia Lennon died Wednesday of cancer. In fact, I was asked many times if I was John's wife, and I had to refuse and say, 'No, no. "So I walked around pregnant for quite a long time, hiding it. the main man in the group, John, was found to be married, then it might take away from that particular success," Cynthia told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1985. They met in art school in 1957 and were married in 1962, just weeks before The Beatles recorded "Love Me Do." But as The Beatles became a sensation, Cynthia had to pretend she wasn't married to John. The two shared a working-class background. In 1985, Cynthia Lennon said that touring with The Beatles was "wonderful," but "all we saw were the inside of hotel rooms, the inside of Cadillacs."īack in the 1960s, when teenage girls in America and England fantasized about romance with their favorite Beatle, Cynthia Powell Lennon held the position so many girls dreamed of - she was married to John.
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