After Cynthia Lennon discovered John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s affair, she knew her marriage was over. Still, it took time before Lennon told her he wanted a divorce. The way he dropped this news on her was incredibly impersonal.
Cynthia believed that it showed an immense amount of cruelty. Cynthia Lennon said John Lennon’s method of divorcing her was cruel and cowardly In 1968, Cynthia returned home from a vacation to find Lennon and Ono sitting in the kitchen , wearing bathrobes. She fled the home, certain her marriage was over.
When she returned to the house after a few days of sheltering with a friend, Lennon behaved as though nothing had happened. He assured her that he wanted their marriage to work and that she had no reason to worry. Not long after, Lennon left for a business trip in New York with Paul McCartney, and Cynthia, her son Julian, and her mother went to Italy.
While there, Lennon’s friend “Magic” Alex Mardas arrived at her hotel with a message from Lennon. “I asked Alex what was going on,” Cynthia wrote in her book John . “He said, ‘I’ve come with a message from John.
He’s going to divorce you, take Julian away from you, and send you back to Hoylake.” Cynthia felt weak with horror. She could scarcely believe the cowardice and cruelty it took for her husband to send a friend to tell her he wanted a divorce.
“My knees gave way. I felt drained and ill,” she wrote. “All I could think at that moment was how cowardly John was to send his .
