Yoko Onos daughter was kidnapped, raise in cult and didnt reunite with her mom for decades

Kyoko Ono is speaking out over a traumatic time in her life.After she was kidnapped at seven years old by her dad, Anthony Cox, her mom Yoko Ono and her step-father John Lennon moved to New York City in hopes of locating her.However, it wasn’t until she was 30 years old that she picked up the phone and called her mother, now 92.“When people hear about my story, they don’t understand what it was like before Facebook,” Kyoko, 61, revealed to the Daily Mail.

“There’s my mom and John doing all these things to appeal to me.”However, she had no idea about the search that was underway for her, and instead, grew up in a cult.Cox, who was Ono’s second husband, kidnapped Kyoko during their custody battle when he violated a court order.“It makes me sound heartless.But I was living on a farm in Iowa,” Kyoko continued to the outlet.

“We didn’t own a TV.And a lot of people don’t understand that there’s a lifestyle like that.”By that time, Ono had remarried Lennon, the Beatles singer and guitarist who was assassinated in Decemebr 1980.In 1971, Cox and his new wife Melinda Kendall took Kyoko to Spain, and enrolled her in a meditation preschool in Majorca.

Ono found out about the move through her lawyers, in which she and Lennon immediately flew to Spain to pick up Kyoko from school.They were then arrested in their hotel room for kidnapping.Kyoko and her parents ended up going to court, in which the judge asked the child who she wanted to live with.Although she didn’t want to chose, the judge insisted.“So, I said my dad, and my mom was upset… I felt like I had an impossible choice to make.”As for her reasoning, Kyoko said, “My mom and John were incredibly busy people.

Usually when I went and stayed with them, I had a nanny, and I sometimes wouldn’t see them all day long.And [with] my dad and my stepmother, I’m their only child.”Cox eventually took Kyoko back to the United States.

and on Christmas Eve 1971, despite Ono having visita...