How Paul McCartney saved John and Yokos marriage after star cheated with woman at party couple attended: memoir

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s marriage wasn’t always peace and love.From late 1973 through 1974, Lennon embarked on his “Lost Weekend” in Los Angeles while being separated from his wife.Ono had banished the singer/songwriter from their home after he had had “loud, raucous sex” with another woman at a party.While Lennon was eager to return to Ono, she was wary about him coming home.

That’s when she got by with a little help from an unlikely Beatle.“There was a time when Sir Paul McCartney offered Yoko his willingness to speak to John in Los Angeles about the separation,” the couple’s pal, Elliot Mintz, told Fox News Digital.“She seemed grateful for that invitation.”The former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer, who met the couple in the early ‘70s, has written a new memoir, “We All Shine On: John, Yoko, & Me,” with the blessing of their son, Sean Lennon.

In the book, he describes how McCartney gave a heartbroken Lennon sound advice on how to win back his love.“Paul came out here, he had a meeting with John,” said Mintz.“His advice to him was, ‘You can’t just say that you’ve changed.

You have to show it.You have to prove it.

It would be like dating her again.You have to bring her flowers, you have to take her out for dinners.

You have to show her how important she is to you in your world.’”Mintz said that Lennon took McCartney’s advice “to heart.” It worked.“Yoko accepted him back in their home, and they resumed their relationship,” Mintz explained.“It was not fun to be around John during the lost weekend.

Keep in mind that John had never really been a bachelor.From his days at Liverpool, he had always been married.

So this was a time when he sowed wild oats.Yoko sent him out here [in Los Angeles] while they had problems in their marriage to find himself.”“Actually, he lost himself during the lost weekend and climbed the ladder back to her heart,” Mintz reflected.During the couple’s separation,...