Lennon’s breach of faith with his son “was the one thing he regretted most, primarily because he was acutely aware he was repeating the pattern of his own childhood,” according to Frederic Seaman. “It killed him,” said Seaman, who was employed as Lennon’s personal secretary, chauffeur, and all-around gofer during the last two years of the rock legend’s life. “He had suffered so much in his own childhood and I think at some point he had said to himself that, no matter what happened, he would not repeat that pattern with his own child. And yet he did. And he saw it. And it killed him. He felt
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