Overview
- Weaver recounted the story on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on January 3 during the show's questionnaire segment.
- She said she wrote the letter on lavender stationery with purple ink, totaling about five pages front and back.
- She recalled dropping the envelope at a restaurant she had heard Lennon visited and said she hopes it was thrown away.
- Weaver described attending a Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl as a preteen, a moment later visible in Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.
- She said Lennon became her favorite after reading a playful anecdote in a fan magazine about a prank involving sandwiches.