but he said my love had saved him .
get daily news updates directly to your inbox subscribe thank you for subscribing we have more newsletters show me see our privacy notice could not subscribe , try again later invalid email gloria hiroko chapman has revealed husband mark told her he was going to murder john lennon two months before he shot dead the beatle on his new york doorstep .
gloria , 67 , said : “ it did n’t matter how long mark was in prison .
yet as soon as news came through that lennon had been killed , gloria said she knew chapman was the assassin .
“ he came home scared , telling me that to make a name for himself he had planned to kill lennon .
she said he needed to grow up as an adult and husband , and needed time to think about his life .
two months earlier , mark had travelled to new york .
” video loading video unavailable click to play tap to play the video will start in 8 cancel play now ( image : jeff rayner coleman - rayner ) ( image : getty ) she has had to wait nearly four decades so far , after chapman , 63 , was given 20 years to life for murdering lennon on december 8 , 1980 .
gloria was 5,000 miles away at home in kailua , hawaii , when the devastating news came in that the 40 - year - old was dead .