Yoko Ono talked about John Lennon's bisexuality in a recent interview with The Daily Beast's Tim Teeman, revealing that she's still afraid of her late husband's killer.
"John and I had a big talk about it, saying, basically, all of us must be bisexual. And we were sort of in a situation of thinking that we're not [bisexual] because of society. So we are hiding the other side of ourselves, which is less acceptable... John and I thought it was good that people think we were bisexual, or homosexual," she said.
Ono also addressed rumors of Lennon's bisexuality, as he was rumored to have slept with the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, at one point. "I think he had a desire to, but I think he was too inhibited," she said, when asked if he had sex with other men, according to People.
"No, not inhibited. He said, 'I don't mind if there's an incredibly attractive guy.' It's very difficult: They would have to be not just physically attractive, but mentally very advanced too. And you can't find people like that."
The Lennon and Epstein speculation grew after the two went on holiday to Spain in 1963 while Cynthia, the Beatles legend's wife at the time, was pregnant with son Julian.
"Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship," Lennon said at the time, but his friend Pete Shotton said Lennon had told him that he let Epstein "toss him off."
"Uh, well, the story I was told was a very explicit story, and from that I think they didn't have it [sex]," Ono said.
"The beginning of the year he was killed, he said to me, 'I could have done it, but I can't because I just never found somebody that was that attractive.' Both John and I were into attractiveness-you know-beauty," she added.
The widow also said in the interview that she fears for her life after Lennon's assassination in 1980 and expressed her concern over the possibility of the killer Mark Chapman's release on parole.
Chapman was denied parole for the eighth time last year, and Ono has publicly opposed each and every parole application made by him since his sentencing.
"I'm super-careful, almost like a certain animal who is used to being hunted, like a deer," she said. "So when I go out or when I don't go out, in my apartment, I'm very, very careful. It's very, very difficult for me to think about Chapman, especially because he doesn't seem to think that was a bad thing to do. It's crazy."
