“I was very scared.
I didn’t want to give up, but it was a mess, it was unreal, and I had to handle this all by myself. There was no choice.
I had to try.
We had two children, we’d just been married a year and my husband didn’t want to get out of bed.
He was drinking too much.
He would tell me he felt useless.
I know he was torturing himself, blaming himself for the break-up, and I was sure that he could get beyond it, but if he didn’t believe in himself, what could I do?
I could only try, that’s all I could do.
Let me tell you, my hands were full.”
Linda McCartney
about his husband’s depression after the Beatles’ break up.
Paul and Linda McCartney in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland 30 July 1970.
Photo by Derek Coutts
