She was madly in love with Ringo and would have fought tooth and nail with anyone who had the nerve to try and take him from her.

I loved Maureen, she was down to earth, honest, and if she had known of Ringo's infidelities while she was in Liverpool, I wouldn't have reckoned much to the chances of the girl or girls in question if she had found out.

The beautiful occasional birds disappeared from view and Ringo got on with the serious business of courting his true love. Although whilst in London he gallivanted around with one of the prominent models of her time, Vicky Hodge, when Maureen arrived in London, the smoke screen came down and they behaved like two little love birds. Luckily for Ringo he had a girlfriend of true scouse stock back home in Liverpool. That same month, John read the News Of The World newspaper article about the book and immediately issued a High Court libel writ in an attempt to prevent further extracts from being published and alleging that Cynthia was in breach of marital confidence he lost the case. “I’d like this to be a culmination of sorts – of the good, the bad and the brilliant side of John Lennon, and not to have anything smoothed over,” she said.In June of 1978, Cynthia Lennon Twist released her first autobiography about her life with John Lennon. The interview came around the time “Imagine,” a documentary about John, was released. Throughout her six-year marriage to John she was an “eternal optimist,” according to the interview. The Los Angeles Times interviewed Cynthia in 1988, when she described how she and John were drawn to each other after suffering the loss of parents at a young age. “I’ve enjoyed these things for 30 years,” Cynthia told People at the time. In 1991, Cynthia auctioned off some of John’s writing, including memorabilia he had collected over the years. He said that unlike John, she was “quiet and reserved and calm” and “not a hippy at all.” In her book, “John,” she talked about being mistreated by her ex-husband during their marriage.Īuthor Hunter Davies, who wrote the only authorized Beatles biography, described Cynthia as a “lovely woman” who was ill-treated by her famous husband, according to the Associated Press. After her divorce from John, Cynthia said her income was “never stable,” according to People. She grew up in England and attended the Liverpool College of Art, where she met John in 1957.Īfter Cynthia and John divorced in 1968, John married Yoko Ono and had another son, Sean Lennon. Cynthia was born in Blackpool, England, and was the youngest of three children of Charles and Lillian Powell.

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