A brand new ebook claims Yoko Ono was warned that John Lennon was at risk earlier than his homicide on Dec. 8, 1980.

We All Shine On: John, Yoko and Me was written by Elliot Mintz, a good friend and former spokesperson for the couple. In it, Mintz recollects varied conversations with Ono following Lennon’s demise.

In an excerpt lately shared with The Times, Mintz implored Ono to conform to a radio interview to fight disinformation concerning her late husband. Ono responded by saying she would verify along with her “advisors,” varied tarot readers and numerologists she trusted.

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“Yoko, let me ask you something,” Mintz replied. “If these advisers are as good as you believe they are, why is it that none of them saw what was going to happen to John? Why was there no warning?”

Ono responded by asserting that she had been alerted to Lennon’s peril.

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“I was told he was in danger in New York and that he should be removed immediately,” she claimed. “That’s why I sent him to Bermuda over the summer. … But I couldn’t keep him away forever. He had to come back at some point.”

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As Mintz was left “speechless” by the revelation, Ono additional defined the scenario.

“You know how John felt about his own safety,” she famous. “We talked about this at our kitchen table when your friend [the actor Sal Mineo] was killed. John said, ‘If they’re going to get you, they’re going to get you.’ It didn’t matter what my advisers told me. He didn’t believe in bodyguards, he wouldn’t put up with them. He wanted to be free.”

Lennon was killed by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman exterior of his New York City residence. He stays behind bars and has been denied parole since 2000.