John Lennon Said Something So Cruel To A Friend He’s Still ‘Scarred’ By It 5 Decades Later

In the 1970s John Lennon and Yoko Ono became friends with radio host Elliott Mintz. They called him separately to discuss theirs relationsand he became one of their closest confidants. Mintz said he liked them, but the closeness of their relationship challenged him at times. One evening he tried to calm down an angry Lennon. The singer’s words to him were so shocking that Mintz refuses to repeat them.

John Lennon told his friend something that still shocks him

After meeting Lennon and Ono, Mintsu began receiving so many calls from the couple that he was forced to set up a hotline just for them.

“I set up a hotline with a number that would only be for John and Yoko,” Mintz said. New York Post. “I have insomnia, Yoko woke up at seven in the morning in New York (which was 4:00 in Los Angeles) and they liked the idea that they could call this number anytime, day or night, and I i will sleep They could share their innermost secrets. They got used to it and, of course, I got used to them.”

While he’s gotten used to their frequent calls, Mintz said it’s become a chore. He was under more pressure when Lennon moved to Los Angeles during his lost weekend.

One evening he became so drunk and aggressive that producer Phil Spector tied him to a chair. Mintz came to calm the singer, but immediately became the object of Lennon’s fury. Mintz won’t repeat what Lennon told him that night, but he said he’ll never forget it.

“He looked at me and said, ‘What are you doing here?'” Mintz said. “Then he threw an epithet at me. I don’t repeat it in the book and I just can’t repeat it to you now. It was really mean and it scarred me.’

Lennon’s girlfriend wrote about that night in her book

During his lost weekend, Lennon met with his assistant Mei Pang. She remembered how Lennon was drunk and disappointed in the studio. They drove home separately, and when they arrived at the house, Lennon was furious.

“When we got to the house, I ran out of the car,” Pang wrote in her book Loving John. “Arlene (Rexon, Peng’s girlfriend) got out of the other and ran to me. She looked very scared. “John’s gone crazy,” she said. “He tried to break the windows of the car. He beats everyone and pulls their hair. Jim Keltner tried to sit on him and hold him, but it was impossible.”

He continued to try to fight people until Spector and his bodyguard carried him upstairs where they tied him to a chair.

“We tied him up,” Spector told her. “He was too dangerous. We tied him tightly so that he would not harm anyone and could sleep. Untie it in the morning. Let’s go, George. goodnight By the way, wasn’t that a great session?’

Pang rushed to the hotel for her safety. The group eventually managed to calm Lennon down.

A friend of John Lennon said that the musician was full of contradictions

Mintz witnessed many bad acts by Lennon during the decade he knew him. Lennon admitted that in his personal life he was always different from what he presented to the public.

“The reality is,” Mintz said People“as I learned over the years in the misbehavior department, John used to say to me, ‘Ellie,’ that’s what he called me, ‘I’m not always the ‘imagine’ guy.”

Mintz said Lennon’s contradictions were part of what made him likable.

“Don’t get me wrong. Most of the time, he was the person we talked to who wrote Imagine and expressed his vision of the world we all wanted to live in,” he said. “But he didn’t always stay there. He was imperfect. That’s one of the reasons, by the way, why we all fell in love with him — because he was real.”