John Lennon is one of the most influential and important artists in music history. But the public face of peace, love, and revolution is a mask. Behind his righteous persona is a troubled man crippled by a traumatic childhood. John Lennon buries the pain of abandonment by spending his whole life building a myth. And when the private truth became public, it ultimately cost him everything. 

Hollywood Scandals is part of the dark Hollywood collection in The REELZ Files. New podcasts drop each Thursday. Next week, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a life at the top to the world of politics, of course not without scandals all along the way.

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