The Beatles has claimed that Yoko Ono once instructed John Lennon on how to take heroin.Set for release this Thursday (April 11), All You Need Is Love includes a part in which Lennon’s ex-wife Ono denied she “put John on H”.“It was just a nice feeling [being on heroin].
So I told John that,” explained Ono, who reportedly first used the drug when she was in Paris (via People).She noted that Lennon “wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it”, claiming: “[He] wanted to take it, that’s why he was asking [about her experiences with the drug].”Ono stated that she was keen to refute the claim that the Beatles icon’s dependence on heroin was entirely her fault.
She said that the couple “never injected” it, but usually just snorted it instead.In 1970, Lennon opened up about taking the drug. “It just was not too much fun,” he remembered during an interview with Rolling Stone. “I never injected it or anything.
We sniffed a little when we were in real pain.”He continued: “We got such a hard time from everyone, and I’ve had so much thrown at me, and at Yoko, especially at Yoko.
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