Kyoko Ono’s life is one of those stories that carries the weight of pain and healing. For over twenty years, she lived with a lingering weight, as she was cut off from her mother, artist Yoko Ono, and completely unaware of the search that lasted decades.

Now 61, Kyoko is finally speaking up. In a rare and personal interview, she opened up about being taken from her mother at the age of eight, living off the grid for most of her childhood, and what it felt like to finally find her way back, years later, as an adult, a mother, and a woman who had spent most of her life in hiding.

Her father took Kyoko Ono unexpectedly and raised her in hiding

Kyoko was just a child when her father, Anthony Cox, disappeared with her after a custody battle. Yoko and John flew to Spain to get her back, but w

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