Personal Life
In the 1960s, Freeman was married to a German-born model - known at the time as Sonny Freeman, with whom he had two children. He was later married to author Tiddy Rowan with whom he had a daughter,
According to a claim in Philip Norman's 2008 biography of Lennon, between 1963 and 1965, Freeman's then wife, Sonny Drane (a model and 1964 Pirelli calendar-girl), had a year-long clandestine affair with John Lennon. Norman further claimed that she was the inspiration for Lennon's song Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). No evidence for this claim has been presented other than Drane's own claim to Norman - made for the first time 43 years after the alleged fact. Her claim to have inspired the song was not based on any conversation Drane had with Lennon subsequent to the song's composition - just her supposition. Freeman has made no public comment on his ex-wife's belated claim.
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