Paul McCartney says Yoko Ono once told him John Lennon 'might have been gay'

"But John loved her, and that's the bottom line. You really can't go beyond that, no matter what you might think. Not my type, but I swear she rang me shortly after John died and said, 'You know, I think John might have been gay.'"

"I went, 'I'm not sure.' I said, 'I don't think so. Certainly not when I knew him.' Because we'd been in the '60s. We'd been around with loads and loads of girls. And I bumped into seeing him jacking... a lot of girl action."

"And I'd slept with John very often, but there was never anything. There was never a gesture, never an expression. It was nothing. So I had no reason to believe this at all."

Paul McCartney discussed Yoko Ono's theory that John Lennon might have been gay in a 2015 Vanity Fair interview. McCartney recalled that Ono contacted him shortly after Lennon's death with this suggestion. However, McCartney expressed skepticism, noting their extensive time together in the 1960s surrounded by women and his observations of Lennon's romantic interests. He emphasized that despite frequently sleeping in close proximity, there were never any romantic gestures or expressions between them. McCartney acknowledged hearing rumors about Lennon's sexuality, particularly regarding his relationship with Beatles manager Brian Epstein, whom he characterized as a power dynamic rather than a romantic involvement.

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