Yoko Ono Calls Out Paul, George, and Ringo For “Ignoring” Her Harassment in HBO's 'John ...

Yoko Ono has long been blamed for “breaking up the Beatles.” The now-92-year-old artist has endured decades of sexist, racist abuse from still-bitter Beatles fans. Now, a recovered phone call featured in the new documentary One to One: John & Yoko—which will premiere on HBO and HBO Max at 8 p.m. tonight—reveals Ono felt abandoned by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr at the height of this horrific harassment.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald, this documentary is an intimate look at the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during an 18-month period where they lived together in New York City in the early 1970s. In addition to restored footage of Lennon and Ono’s “One to One” concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1972—Lennon’s only full-length concert after the Beatles and before his murder in 1980—the documentary also features never-before-heard phone calls from Ono and Lennon, who recorded all their calls at the time.

In a phone call between Ono and musician David Peel—a New York friend of the couple, who occasionally performed with Lennon at political rallies—Ono details the horrific verbal and physical abuse she faced from Beatles fans.

“I’m supposedly the person who broke up The Beatles, you know?,” Ono says in the phone call, recorded in the early 1970s. “When I was pregnant, many people wrote to me saying, ‘I wish you and your baby would die.'”

Ono continued, “I got a rubber doll has lots of needles in it, in the eyes, and the nose, and everything. When I was walking on the street with John, people came to me, saying things like I’m an ugly Jap. They pulled my hair, and hit my head. I was just about to faint.”

Ono goes on to say that during this period, she had three miscarriages. Then she expresses frustration that amidst this treatment from Beatles fans, none of the Beatles (save for Lennon) stood up for her.

Source: Anna Menta/decider.com

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