Yoko Ono Was Warned John Lennon Was ‘In Danger’ Before His Murder

A brand new e book claims Yoko Ono was warned that John Lennon was at risk earlier than his homicide on Dec. 8, 1980.

We All Shine On: John, Yoko and Me was written by Elliot Mintz, a pal and former spokesperson for the couple. In it, Mintz remembers varied conversations with Ono following Lennon’s dying.

In an excerpt not too long ago shared with The Occasions, Mintz implored Ono to conform to a radio interview to fight disinformation concerning her late husband. Ono responded by saying she would verify together with her “advisors,” varied tarot readers and numerologists she trusted.

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“Yoko, let me ask you one thing,” Mintz replied. “If these advisers are pretty much as good as you consider they’re, why is it that none of them noticed what was going to occur to John? Why was there no warning?”

Ono responded by asserting that she had been alerted to Lennon’s peril.

John Lennon ‘Did not Imagine in Bodyguards’

“I used to be instructed he was at risk in New York and that he ought to be eliminated instantly,” she claimed. “That’s why I despatched him to Bermuda over the summer season. … However I couldn’t preserve him away ceaselessly. He needed to come again in some unspecified time in the future.”

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As Mintz was left “speechless” by the revelation, Ono additional defined the state of affairs.

“You understand how John felt about his personal security,” she famous. “We talked about this at our kitchen desk when your pal [the actor Sal Mineo] was killed. John mentioned, ‘In the event that they’re going to get you, they’re going to get you.’ It didn’t matter what my advisers instructed me. He didn’t consider in bodyguards, he wouldn’t put up with them. He wished to be free.”

Lennon was killed by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman outdoors of his New York Metropolis house. He stays behind bars and has been denied parole since 2000.