John Lennon’s former assistant May Pang has revealed that the ‘Beatles’

legend was a secret womaniser, and that he even cheated on her while they were seeing each other.

Lennon’s romance with Pang went on for about 18 months after his wife Yoko Ono set them up, in a bid to save her marriage.

Pang says that she and Lennon spent time in New York and Los Angeles during their relationship, where she caught the singer cheating twice.

“I know he had a couple of affairs. But he would come back. And when I found out, he’d say, ‘I’m sorry.’ And I forgave him. It was his insecurity. He was like, ‘I’m with somebody, am I making the right decisions?’ and he did something stupid, and he came back,”

Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“It was just one-night-stands. He had one in New York and one in L.A. I forgave him. Absolutely. It was one night. What was I going to do? It wasn’t something that carried on over and over and over again,” she added.

Fifty-seven-year-old Pang is promoting a book of rare Lennon photographs, Instamatic Karma, these days.

JOHN LENNON’s ex-girlfriend MAY PANG came within days of reuniting THE BEATLES during her 18-month relationship with the star. May Pang dated Lennon during his “lost weekend” in 1974 and 1975, after working as his assistant for three years. They came together after Yoko Ono encouraged them to date because her marriage to the rocker was faltering.

Pang claims it was her objective during their romance to reunite Lennon with his estranged writing partner Paul McCartney - and bring the Fab Four back together. And she insists she came close - Lennon was making plans to join McCartney in New Orleans when he suddenly returned to Yoko Ono. Pang says, “It was my goal at the end to get them back together. That’s what I wanted. We talked about reuniting the Beatles. At one point he wanted to do it. For the hell of it. Because there wasn’t any pressure, any contracts. He’d say, ‘That’d be fun.’

“Enough time had passed and he was enjoying himself performing with other musicians. It was fun again. John said to me one day, ‘What do you think if I start to write with Paul again?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding? that would be great.’ He asked me why? And I told him, ‘Solo-wise, you’re good. Together there’s something so magical you can’t beat.’ “They were talking about it originally for 1974, but everybody was busy. Then they talked about adding other musicians. Harry Nilsson wanted to be part of it, other people wanted to be part of it.

Pang claims any hope the Beatles had of reuniting died the day Lennon suddenly returned to live with Yoko Ono at New York’s Dakota Building. She says, “Yoko called him up one day. She had this method she had to help him quit smoking. He said, ‘I’ll be gone for a couple of hours. I’ll be back, we’ll go for dinner and talk about going to New Orleans.’” Lennon never came back and the Beatles plans died. But Pang insists he was serious about bringing back the Beatles: “He was really thinking about it. It was so fantastic.” Pang, 57, is currently promoting a book of rare Lennon photographs, Instamatic Karma.

May Pang’s official launch party for her new book Instamatic Karma (St. Martin’s Press) was an overflow event at Steve Walter’s Cutting Room.The event was hosted by Beatle John Lennon’s first wife, hostess Cynthia Lennon and I mean, you couldn’t even walk around it was so crowded with friends and music industry fixtures.Improper Editor and Publisher Keith Girard and yours truly got there about 8:30PM and it was still going strong.

In the teeming crowd were Jon ‘Mojo’ Moorehead, who was there withJeannine Hannum; Sit-com star and actress Joyce DeWitt; of “Three’s Company” fame; legendary ‘

60s pop idol Lou Christie; Billy Amendola from Modern Drummer;Richard Barone from The Bongos;Ellen Joy Voell; Eddie Brigati from The Rascals; Wayne Cobham and brother-drummer Billy Cobham; pr ace Sandy Hicks and Rick Edwards from The Morrison Hotel Gallery.

Also seen in the house were: Q104.3’s Ken Dashow; PR-barrister David Salidor;singer/renegade David Peel; the legendary Sid Bernstein; Fox News pop culture columnistRoger Friedman; TV-host Rita Cosby; Dennis Ferrante; Ellen Joy; Tara; music journalist Jim Bessman; and shutterbugs Mick Rock and Chuck Pulin.

The Cutting Room’s Peter Abraham and Susan Hathaway saw to everyone’s needs; and, Ms. Pang herself was sequestered behind a table and furiously signing books. We wanted to purchase a copy of the book but, couldn’t even get near the table where they were. St. Martin’s, help! The first great event of the year if you ask me!

 
Source: The Improper

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