or Yoko Ono … and that’s reality! “Your memory is impaired to say the least. It reads in full: “As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. It is being consigned by a private collector in the US who wishes to remain anonymous and the letter is tipped to sell for £20,000 ($25,000). The letter measures 8.5in by 11in and has been signed ‘John’ with Lennon adding a small sketch of his face. In the letter, Lennon slams Cynthia for making the details of their marriage breakdown public He refuted her claim that he hired a private detective to spy on her and her future husband Roberto Bassanini who she was married to from 1970 to 1973. In Lennon’s rebuttal, he claimed Cynthia came to visit him two years earlier in 1974 to try and persuade him to get back together with her but he declined because he was still in love with Ono. At the time these letters were written, Lennon had reunited with his second wife Ono after an 18 month separation. or Yoko Ono John Lennon She claimed her ex-husband’s mounting LSD use and the intrusion of Yoko Ono were to blame for the breakdown of the marriage. As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. He wrote it in response to an article Cynthia had published in an English women’s magazine earlier that year. I think it only fair to me and your readers to present my side of the story’. Lennon sent the letter to a US weekly magazine for them to publish with the request that it is ‘printed without any edits. He claimed their relationship was over long before Yoko Ono arrived on the scene and accused her of double standards for wishing to get away from her past with the Beatle, yet was happy to speak about it to magazines. In the original letter, which is titled ‘an open letter to Cynthia Twist’ and is dated November 15, 1976, the former Beatle said Cynthia had an ‘impaired’ memory of their marriage.
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