Inside Yoko Ono’s Final Days at 92: ‘She Feels She Made Her Mark’

Yoko Ono, once one of the most polarizing and talked-about women in the world, is living out her final years in complete peace and privacy — far from the spotlight she once courted.

The 92-year-old avant-garde artist and widow of John Lennon has traded fame and controversy for stillness and reflection. Sources tell OK! that Ono “feels her work is done” and wants nothing more than to live her last days “in peace and quiet.”

“She sees the world she helped shape and wants only stillness now,” a family friend shared. “She feels she made her mark — and now it’s time simply to admire the life she lived.”

Once a fearless provocateur who helped redefine art, love, and activism in the 1960s and ’70s, Ono became infamous after her creative and romantic partnership with Lennon changed pop culture forever. The pair met at one of her art shows in London in 1966 and married three years later — launching a whirlwind collaboration that fused music, politics, and performance art.

But her world shattered on December 8, 1980, when Lennon was fatally shot outside their Manhattan home, the Dakota, as Ono stood nearby.

In later years, she said what she missed most about him was “his incredible tenderness and his belief in me.” Despite the pain, she vowed to protect his memory and remained rooted in the apartment they shared.

“I would feel very strange if I had to leave this apartment,” she once said. “There are so many things he touched here that he loved.”

For more than four decades, Ono lived at the Dakota, even as the world around her moved on. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, she finally left New York City for good, settling at the 600-acre farm she and Lennon bought decades earlier in upstate New York.

According to her daughter, Kyoko, that decision has brought her peace. “My mom believed she could change the world — and she did,” Kyoko said. “Now she’s able to be quiet, listen to the wind, and watch the sky. She is very happy.”

Ono’s enduring influence has resurfaced in recent years through the new HBO documentary One to One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald, which explores the couple’s life, activism, and groundbreaking music — from Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins to Double Fantasy.

When she accepted the Grammy for Double Fantasy in 1982, a year after Lennon’s death, she tearfully told the audience, “I think John is with us here today. Both John and I were always proud to be part of the human race that made good music for the Earth and for the universe.”

Now, at 92, Yoko Ono’s life has come full circle — from the chaos of the art world to the calm of the countryside. “She once thrived on attention,” said a source close to her, “but these days, she wants the opposite. She’s at peace.”