Drunken John Lennon once threatened female partygoer with a knife: ‘I’ll show you violence

Jack Douglas, John Lennon’s producer and pal, is recalling the late musician’s unconventional party trick.

Douglas, 80, reflected on attending a gathering alongside Lennon and American social activist, Abbie Hoffman, in New York City in the early 1970s.

“They were talking in his apartment. ‘Off the pig.’ They were talking about violence, and he was getting drunker and drunker,” the producer shared while on Billy Corgan’s “The Magnificent Others” podcast on Nov. 27. “He made quite a scene at that party. He grabbed a knife in the kitchen and he went at this woman who had been yelling to ‘off the pigs,’ and he was like, ‘You want violence? I’ll show you violence!’”

And Lennon got his point across.

Douglas said the guitarist “scared the s–t out of” the woman.

The friends quickly left the party after the incident.

The term pig referenced the police and was used by a number of political parties at the time.

Both Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were heavily involved with Hoffman and fellow activist Jerry Rubin.

The duo got the former Beatle and his wife, now 92, to speak at a rally for John Sinclair, a writer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling marijuana.

However, Douglas said that Hoffman and Rubin were “using” Lennon to further their political agenda.

The artist dubbed the political figures as “nutcases” at that heightened party with Douglas.

And in 1971, Lennon and Ono were put under surveillance by the FBI and almost deported for their ant-Vietnam war activism.

Nine years later, Lennon was assassinated on December 8, 1980 at age 40.

In 2023, Douglas recalled working with Lennon in the studio on the day he died.

“He was very positive,” he told People at the time. “They were both just so happy.”

“During that whole period, he was just so excited to be back and so happy to be with his family and how much he loved [his son] Sean and how things with Yoko were pretty good,” Douglas continued. “It was a very different John, and that whole period was just lovely.”

The record producer added that Lennon had “a lot of plans” for the future.

“I once asked [John], ‘What’s your secret of writing a really great song?’ And he said, ‘Tell the truth, and make it rhyme.’ The reason why so many people felt close to him was because they always felt they knew him, because he sang about what he was going through. There was just this great truth about his music.”

Ono and Lennon shared son Sean, 50.

The legendary rocker was also dad to son Julian, 62, with ex-wife Cynthia Lennon.

For the brothers, the 2021 documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” stirred up several childhood memories.

“I remembered him as a kid — goofy, funny, sarcastic, charming,” Julian told People at the time. “I fell in love with him again because that was the guy I remember before it all went pear-shaped.”

While on BBC Radio in 2020, the musician reflected on one of his last conversations with Lennon.

“Dad and I had been getting on and speaking a lot more on the phone, you know. When I was sort of 15, 16 and 17,” Julian shared. “I just remember I was living in North Wales at the time and I’d spent six months or a year in boarding as well and I’d finally come home. And I was living at mom’s house and I was finishing up at school. I remember him playing ‘Starting Over’ [Lennon’s final song before his death] over the phone, he just mixed it.”

Julian found himself listening to his dad “being extremely happy in a happy place.”

“And doing what he loved,” he continued, “and the music that he played me at that particular point, ‘Starting Over,’ and some of the other album tracks. I was very happy for him and looking forward to seeing him again. Anyway, in another dimension …”