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John Lennon and Yoko Ono were “obsessed” with their weight during their time in the spotlight.
Former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer Elliot Mintz, who was close friends with Lennon and Ono, claimed how they were “obsessed with staying skinny” in his memoir “We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me,” out Tuesday.
Mintz, 79, became friends with the couple after interviewing Ono, now 91, for her 1971 album “Fly.” He’s remained close with the Japanese singer, as well as her son Sean Lennon, since John’s death in 1980.
“John kept a journal where each day he would write what his weight was,” Mintz alleged in his book about the late Beatles member, according to People.
“Yoko and John had endless questions about this subject,” Mintz added.
The media consultant said that Lennon once called him at 4 a.m. asking to help him find “diet pills.”
“They thought that everybody in Hollywood was slim and trim and that there were magic diet pills, and insisted I get that for them,” Mintz recalled, adding that he didn’t do that favor for the couple.
Mintz also described Lennon and Ono’s racks of clothes as “like a Manhattan boutique” and said it was organized “according to waist size” with “a large wraparound ladder so they could get to higher boxes.”
Lennon and Ono had “hundreds of articles of clothing, including dozens and dozens of hats and glasses,” Mintz added.
“They kept their various jeans and pantsuits, whatever it might be, in different categories of waist size, 28 [inches] reaching to 32 or so, depending on how they perceived their weight and how tight the pants fit,” he said in his book.
The couple’s refrigerator allegedly was filled with, in Mintz’s words to PEOPLE, “unrecognizable” health foods.
“Their refrigerator was like going into this pit of curiosity,” he told the outlet. ”There were sometimes these paper containers, suggesting there were leftovers from the night before, and you would open the container and look in and still not be able to identify what they were eating.”
“Before John learned to cook, they were a little thin in the nutrition department,” Mintz continued. “And Yoko, with all due respect, did not know her way around the stove.”
The Post has reached out to Ono’s rep for comment.
The “Give Peace a Chance” star was left a widow when Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment in New York City on December 8, 1980. He was 40 years old.
The couple’s son, Sean, was only 5 years old at the time of the tragedy. Sean is now 49.
In recent years, Ono has stayed out of the spotlight amid rumors that her health is declining. In 2020, a source close to her staff told The Post that the avant-garde artist requires round-the-clock care and rarely leaves her sprawling apartment in the Dakota, located in the Upper West Side of NYC.
Mintz, who has acted as a family spokesperson for Ono, told PEOPLE his new memoir does not have any “salacious” material about Ono and Lennon.
“What it is to the best of my knowledge, is an honest first-person account of what it was like to spend almost a decade of my life with them, and now, more than 50 years with Yoko,” he said.