Schoolgirl’s eight days in bed with the Lennons

THE extraordinary story of how a Canadian schoolgirl spent eight days ‘in bed’ with John Lennon and Yoko Ono after gate-crashing their peace protest is to be made into a film.

Author Gail Renard, who now lives in the UK and has a successful career as a drama and children’s TV writer, first told her story in 2015 in the book Give Me A Chance.

The rights to that have now been bought and although Renard says it is ‘too early’ to discuss the project, buzz suggests that it will be a little like My Week With Marilyn, or the Oscar-winning Judy, in which the familiar story of a megastar is told — at least in part — through the eyes of a young fan or employee.

In May 1969, Lennon and wife Yoko checked into the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal to stage their second ‘Bed-In’: a ‘Press-conference-cum-happening’ during which they preached world peace from a kingsized divan.

Renard, pictured with the Lennons, and a school friend sneaked up the fire escape of the hotel and knocked on the door — and ended up staying for the duration.

She watched Lennon write the song Give Peace A Chance and then record it — and was given the lyric sheet by him as a memento. It was auctioned for more than £400,000 in 2008.