‘The Lost Weekend’ Trailer: Yoko Ono Asks Her Personal Assistant to Date Husband John Lennon in Affair Documentary
Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s marriage may be the stuff of rock ‘n roll history, but new details of an affair are shedding light on the eccentric partnership.
Former employee May Pang exposes her extramarital relationship with late Beatle Lennon, alleging the two dated for 18 months during his marriage to Ono. Documentary “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” features interviews with Pang, Ono’s son Julian Lennon, and archived footage of Lennon himself calling the idea of his affair with Pang “ridiculous.”
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Pang was 19 years old when she began working at Apple Records and soon started an affair with Lennon while employed as his and Ono’s personal assistant. Ono’s rocky marriage to Lennon inspired her to ask Pang to be intimate with her husband. Ono and Lennon were married in 1969, one year before the Beatles disbanded in 1970. Lennon later was shot and killed in 1980.
“Yoko walked into my office and said, ‘John and I are not getting along. I want you to go out with him,'” Pang says in the trailer. “Well are you kidding? I can’t do that, he’s my employer, he’s my boss. He’s your husband.”
Pang continues, “[Ono] did not realize it was going to turn into such a big love affair. She thought it would be two weeks, gone, goodbye. She told me, ‘I’m thinking of taking John back.’ And I said, ‘What?’ And she said, ‘I think it’s time.'”
Pang and Lennon split after nearly two years together, with Ono returning to her marriage in February 1975.
“The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” is directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels and debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
This isn’t the first documentary centered on Ono and Lennon’s relationship: Lennon’s autobiographical film “Imagine” debuted in 2018, featuring interviews with Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, and more. After Lennon was murdered in 1980, Ono commissioned yet another documentary, “Imagine: John Lennon” (1988) from writer/director/producer Andrew Solt.
Late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (“Big Little Lies,” “Dallas Buyers Club”) was also set to helm a narrative feature in 2018 from a script co-written by Ono.
“The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” premieres April 13 in theaters.
Check out the trailer below.
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