Sean Ono Lennon Says Mom Yoko Ono 'Never Has Moved on' from Her Relationship with John Lennon

• Sean Ono Lennon says mom Yoko is still grieving for her husband John Lennon
• Sean says Yoko “never left that relationship” with John
• John was shot and killed in New York in December 1980

This week marks 44 years since John Lennon’s tragic death — and his son Sean Ono Lennon says the late Beatle’s wife Yoko Ono still hasn’t gotten over the devastating loss.

Sean, 49, told BBC Radio 6 Music that Yoko, 91, talked about John “every day” after he was shot dead in New York on December 8, 1980, aged 40.

“I grew up with my mom talking about my dad every day. She famously cut her hair off when my dad died [because] in Japan you cut your hair when your husband dies,” he said. “So she talked about him every day and I don’t think she ever left that relationship.”

Sean — who recently helmed the reissue of John’s 1973 album Mind games — also spoke candidly about John’s famous “Lost Weekend,” his parents’ 18-month separation during which John lived with May Pang. In that time apart, John released and recorded Mind Games — but for Sean, his parents, who married in 1969, never really split up (after John’s death, Yoko continued to date interior designer Sam Havadtoy, though PEOPLE previously reported they split in 2001).

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon at the Council Reception for the opening of the Yoko Ono ‘To The Light’ exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery on June 18, 2012 in London, England.

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“The truth is, even when they were apart, they always talked. So I don’t think they ever really broke up. All his things were still in my mom’s apartment. It’s not like they really split up,” he said. “I think it’s clear what his view of my mom was in his life. She was monumental, obviously, and the whole album is about her. She’s there in the studio… It kind of confirmed how deeply he was in love with my mom.”

Sean, who became a musician himself, added to the BBC that he had spoken to Yoko about “The Lost Weekend” and said she still had “bad feelings” about that time, but knew that in order for the relationship to survive, she and John needed a break.

“I think every relationship is very difficult and I don’t believe that human beings have really solved the love equation,” he said. “So I think they did the best that I can see.”

Sean recently opened up to PEOPLE about his parents’ relationship and said that John’s “entire life and art was infused with his relationship with my mom.”

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in June 1969.

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“The whole album is about my mom. They are mostly love songs about her,” he said. “My dad announced to the world that ‘John and Yoko’ are one word. I think he was always attached to her. He was so in love with her. They had a legendary love and I think this album is imbued with that love. You can hear it.”

He also explained that his decision to become a musician was not because he had a particular passion for it, but because it helped him feel close to his late father.

“I never got into music because I was good at it. I lost my father and I didn’t know how to fill that void. Learning how to play his songs on the guitar was a way for me to process the loss as an activity that made me feel connected to him,” he said. “When you lose a parent, things like that motivate you — because you’re trying to find them. Making music always made me feel like I was getting to know him better.”

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