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Yoko Ono Told John Lennon How to Take Heroin, New Book Claims: I Told Him 'It Was Just a Nice Feeling'

A new book consisting of interview transcripts from The Beatles and their loved ones features an excerpt — shared by 'The Sunday Times' — in which Yoko Ono details telling John Lennon how to take heroin, though she denies that she 'put John on H.'

In one interview from the book, Ono, now 91, reportedly said she advised Lennon on how to take heroin, and denied that she "put John on H," which she claimed his bandmate Harrison had accused her of. Per the Times excerpt, Ono reportedly said she first "had a sniff of" heroin in Paris and that she experienced "a beautiful feeling" as she did not get sick from it. In 1970, Lennon, who was killed in 1980, previously detailed his first experience with heroin, telling Rolling Stone that it was "not too much fun" and that he "never injected anything."

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