Yoko Ono, a creative woman ahead of her time, put honey in May Pang’s mouth and almost cost her her marriage.
The jar of honey was John Lennon, Ono’s husband and Pang’s idol, who had managed to be the former Beatle’s secretary or personal assistant once the love couple
The wife herself was about to blow up her home in the Dakota building in Manhattan with one of her ideas.
Pang was 22 years old in 1973 when he had realized his dream of working for the person he admired the most.
“He needs someone nice, like you,†Yoko told May. The couple’s relationship was going through a bad time after four years of marriage. Ono thought they needed a hiatus to get the passion back. So while taking that period of reflection, he asked the secretary to become a girlfriend of Lennon, ten years older than her.
“I rejected it. He respected her marriage. That’s not what I wanted, I felt very happy with my work,” Pang told the media these days. But an intimacy was forged that lasted from 1973 to 1975, 18 months of courtship that, it is said, Lennon called “the lost weekend” -Pang disputes it-, but which is the title of the documentary with this title, The lost weekend: a love Story soon to be released in the United States and in which it is recounted how that romance blossomed and how it ended.
“It’s almost surreal. In a sense, Yoko Ono took advantage of me because I was naive. On the other, she gave me a gift. Jonh and I fell in love,†she stated.
Ono explained that she and Lennon had always been together and that he was going to start hanging out with people. “I think you will be good for him. She wanted me to be her girlfriend so she could control the relationship, â€insisted the chosen one.
At 72, still a rocker and a resident of Queens, Pang recalls in the film that the beginning was not an idyllic honeymoon, but a situation full of nerves. The thing began with some stolen kiss, increasingly repeated caresses, squeezes in the elevator. The first time they laid down and had sex, she cried with happiness.
In his version, Lennon told him that he did not know where all this was going to lead them, although he repeated “let’s take the leap.”
The escalation went further in September of that 1973. Lennon stated that he needed to leave New York and be away from Yoko Ono. In this way he started his Californian adventure, in Los Angeles, the surroundings of Hollywood, installed in a mansion in Bel-Air. The former Beatle used to drink alcohol and had a couple of incidents in the premises.
Yoko Ono called them daily, even at dawn, to say nothing. They returned to Manhattan after six months and stayed together. But already in 1975, Lennon returned to the Dakota for a session with a hypnotist to help him quit smoking. They spent the weekend and Johh confessed to Pang that “Yoko lets me stayâ€.
