https://nypost.com/2000/04/18/bio-bares-the-secret-life-of-john-lennon/
JOHN LENNON, alone in his bedroom in the Dakota, knelt before the television as if it were an altar. His hand stretched, fingers spread, to touch the screen as a devout pilgrim might reach to touch a miraculous relic.
The show was “The 700 Club,” the electronic pulpit of right-wing evangelist Pat Robertson.
The preacher would have been amazed to know the 20th-century icon of rebellion had found Jesus.
Lennon worshiping in front of a TV set is just one of the bizarre and incongruous images of the former Beatle that emerge from “Lennon in America,” by Geoffrey Giuliano (Cooper Square Press), a minutely detailed account of the last years of his life based on Giuliano’s copies of Lennon’s secret personal diaries.
They portray Lennon in his last years as neurotic, paranoid, isolated, weak-willed, suicidal, drug-addicted, sexually immature, superstitious, tyrannical and confused – but most of all: bored and profoundly unhappy.
GIULIANO makes no apology for the disturbing image of Lennon he’s created. He claims the messianic love-and-peace image fans have of the former Beatle is a falsehood perpetuated by Yoko Ono.