Both of them were stoned and they were discussing the meaning of life.
‘Ev was lying on the floor, talking to George Harrison. She remembers an early encounter with him at a party at The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein’s house – Everett was friendly with the Fab Four and later accompanied them on a tour of the States as their DJ. When Lee first met Everett, she was living with the singer Billy Fury, but their relationship was nearing its end. The film is his retort to all those who doubted we were in love.’ ‘For years, I had to endure the slur he’d married me as a cover for his homosexuality. ‘Ev’s behind this whole thing, isn’t he?’ she says, referring to the film. They were, doctors confirmed, a tangible manifestation of her anxiety, but she recovered quickly. ‘It was emotionally so stressful that I had heart palpitations, and was rushed to hospital.’ ‘I felt as if I was re-living Ev’s anguish,’ says Lee, 75. She describes how Lansley captures Everett’s look of ‘complete distress’ as he watches Lee (Kelly) walk out of the church hand-in-hand with her new husband. When I watched the filming of my wedding to John, it brought it all back.’ Though he was, by then, in his first gay relationship, with a lovely guy, an Australian waiter who was devoted to him, he still didn’t want to lose me. ‘The night before I got married to John, Ev said to me, “Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?” He wanted to have his cake and eat it. ‘And he was upset I wasn’t wearing the wedding ring he’d given me when I married John,’ smiles Lee. Everett, though very fond of John, was still madly possessive of Lee to such an extent he insisted on being best man when she remarried.
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