Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, is reportedly struggling right now, as the 87 year-old is wheelchair bound and requires around the clock care for an unnamed illness.

Fox News reported that a source said that Ono rarely leaves her sprawling apartment in The Dakota, and she has been selling some real-estate assets in recent years.

“She has definitely slowed down, like anyone at that age,” said Elliot Mintz, a close family friend who has known Ono for nearly 50 years.

“But she is as sharp as she once was.”

Mintz added that he last saw Ono at her 87th birthday party back in February, an event that was attended by around thirty people.

He also said that Ono is incredibly close to her 44-year-old son Sean Lennon.

“Sean is her best friend,” said Mintz. “They have dinner two or three times a week, and he occasionally brings his mom out as a guest star in his band.”

This year, they kept things low-key for Ono’s birthday, according to Mintz.

“She blew out the candles with Sean and she was among the last to leave,” he said. “She was in good spirits. I helped her into her wheelchair and gently helped her into her car.”

Mintz refused to discuss Ono’s medical ailments, whatever they may be.

“She is a particularly special being,” he said. “In these 87 years, she’s lived 400.”

When the coronavirus pandemic took hold of New York back in February, Ono stepped up to donate $250,000 to Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, to support healthcare workers fighting the pandemic on the frontlines.

“Montefiore was specifically chosen because Yoko wanted to assist a hospital in a community hit hard by COVID that didn’t have the ability to turn to wealthy donors and board members the way Cornell, NYU, Mount Sinai and others in Manhattan can,” said Mintz.

After growing up in poverty, the cause of hunger has always been closest to Ono’s heart.

“I remember being hungry and I know it’s so difficult to just be hungry,” Ono said in a 2013 interview.

“One day I didn’t bring a lunchbox. The other kids asked, don’t you want to eat? I just said, no, I’m not hungry.”

Ono also recently donated $50,000 to the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, which provided thousands of meals to out-of-work and needy residents in her Upper West Side neighborhood throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

“She has been a true philanthropic partner,” said Noreen Springstead, the group’s executive director.

“She is the most energetic, the most vivacious person and is very hands-on. She has been incredibly invested for more than three decades.”