Olivia Harrison

A mentally ill man, 36-year-old Michael Abram, had broken in, believing that George was possessed by the devil. Olivia fended off Harrison's assailant nearly single-handedly, after George had been stabbed repeatedly. She subdued him by using a fireplace poker and a lamp to bludgeon him. Harrison received a fax from his close friend Tom Petty that read: "Aren't you glad you married a Mexican girl?"

Olivia, together with Beatles' wives Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono, and Barbara Bach, has been involved with the Romanian Angel Appeal since the early 1990s, which has raised millions of dollars to provide aid for children living in devastation. She reveals her concerns for the Romanian orphans in this quotation (from her appearance on "Wogan", transmitted 22 June 1990):

It was sort of a gradual assault on my conscience. It was slowly wearing away at me and I decided that perhaps we should try to raise some money... I went to Romania and was just overwhelmed, devastated and shocked by the situation. Read Less