An ambulance was called to her Manhattan apartment on Friday night after the 83-year-old complained of flu-like symptoms

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The artist Yoko Ono, the widow of the late former Beatle, John Lennon, has been released from a New York-area hospital after her admission on Friday, complaining of severe flu-like symptoms.



An ambulance was called to Ono’s apartment building at 72nd Street and Central Park West in Manhattan around 9 pm on Friday.

Ono’s spokesman, Elliot Mintz denied US media reports that Ono, 83, had suffered a possible stroke or heart attack.



Ono’s son with John Lennon, Sean, tweeted that his mother had not had a stroke but that she was dehydrated and tired.

After her release from hospital, he tweeted that his mother was “running about as usual” after getting home. He says he may now go get a flu shot.

Ono has lived in the luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side since 1973. Lennon was shot and killed in front of the building in December 1980.

Ono’s career as an artist has spanned more than five decades. Last year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York marked her achievements with an exhibition of her early works showing how her ideas influenced the development of art in the city in the 1960s.

Ono, also an experimental musician and film-maker, was once described by Lennon as “the world’s most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name but nobody knows what she does.”

She and Lennon were married on March 20, 1969, and their son, Sean, was born in 1975.