Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20150401195044/@comment-14284535-20150401221404

Paul McCartney pays tribute to her: https://gma.yahoo.com/john-lennons-first-wife-cynthia-lennon-dies-75-153312633--abc-news-music.html

Disclaimer: When I was a kid and John Lennon started seeing Yoko Ono, a lot of horrible things were said about her that harkened to the racial epithets from Korea and 'Nam - that also applied to my mother, who is Chinese - that really pissed me off.

Cynthia was not only treated badly by Lennon (cf. "Norwegian Wood"), but she was treated poorly by EMI records and the gutter press. Not only did Lennon abuse her, but, as Mal Evans put it, "[John's, Paul's George's, and Ringo's] womanising was worse than their reputations." Cynthia, Maureen, and Patti had to endure a lot of indignities, which ranged from their existences being almost denied by the Beatles' record label to ambushes from media people ratting out their husbands' latest indiscretions.

Cynthia endured worse treatment than Maureen and Patti, though. Can you imagine your spouse giving your favourite bathrobe to the person s/he brought to your home to scerw with? How about your spouse effectively ignoring your child? I am glad that she eventually recovered from her ill-treatment to lead a much happier later life.