Yoko Ono - musician, artist, activist, and 92-year-old widow of the late John Lennon - took the brunt of criticism when the Beatles broke up in 1970, and details revealed in the new documentary "One to One: John & Yoko" highlight her personal struggle.
Audio recordings from the early 1970s - the years immediately following the Beatles' breakup - are included in the new documentary "One to One: John & Yoko," in which Ono recounts the harassment she was subjected to.
Although her presence during the Beatles' recording sessions in the late 1960s caused tension, Ono has always denied playing such a starring role in the late Fab For, CNN reports.
"I'm supposed to be the guy who ruined the Beatles, you know? When I was pregnant, a lot of people texted me, 'I want you and your baby to die,'" Ono said in the film.
She further recalled that when she was walking down the street with Lennon, "people would come up to me and say things like I was an 'ugly Japanese woman.' They were pulling my hair and hitting me on the head and I was about to pass out."
By this time she had suffered three miscarriages.
"One to One chronicles Lennon and Ono's lives in the early 1970s, when they moved from England to New York and lived in a small Greenwich Village apartment while becoming prominent political activists amid the beginnings of Lennon's solo career.
The documentary is a collage of recorded phone conversations between Lennon and Ono, as well as remastered clips from the 1972 One to One benefit concert, which was the first and only concert Lennon performed after the Beatles broke up and before his death in 1980.
Ono and Lennon's son Sean Lennon is the executive producer of the film.
At one point in the film, Lennon and Ono are seen attending the first International Feminist Conference at Cambridge University, where Ono gives a speech about his experience of transitioning from an artist who had "relative freedom as a woman" to an artist who had "relative freedom as a woman", and how things have changed since becoming attached to Lennon.
When she met Lennon, she says that "society suddenly hated me as a woman who belonged to a man who was one of the most influential people in our generation." | BGNES