Priscilla Presley opens about serving to her son with drug dependancy simply weeks after the dying of her grandson

Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of drug dependancy which some readers might discover distressing.

Priscilla Presley has spoken out about serving to her son Navarone Garcia via his drug dependancy issues after he got here to her shortly after the dying of her grandson.

Speaking to PEOPLE, Presley defined that two weeks after her grandson Benjamin Keough had been buried following his dying by suicide in 2020, Navarone got here to her and requested for assist getting away from the drug fentanyl.

In an interview she described how she helped her son kick his dependancy, explaining that she now is aware of ‘what it is like with somebody who goes via withdrawal’ and described the entire course of as ‘horrible’.

“Lots of people cannot get via it and go proper again to it. It was laborious,” she stated of serving to her son get off the medicine and keep off them.

Navarone went via 22 days of withdrawal signs earlier than his mum thought he’d made a breakthrough, although a number of months later he relapsed with heroin and got here again to her.

Presley recounted that her son got here to her and stated: “Mother, I need to get off medicine. I do not need to do that anymore. I do not need to damage you anymore. Will you assist me?”

Navarone had first tried heroin in his teenagers, Presley stated, and she or he agreed to assist him once more and took him again into the house, the place he struggled with issues from withdrawal signs which Priscilla, now 80, says she would not want on anyone.

She stated: “He stayed at my dwelling and I slept with him each evening, and he had withdrawals each evening.

“I do not want that on anybody as a result of there’s actually nothing you are able to do. You’ll be able to’t give them extra medicine, that is for certain. They should undergo it.”

Given her expertise serving to her son via each she stated that heroin withdrawal was ‘unhealthy’ however Navarone’s withdrawal from fentanyl was worse.

In her memoir Softly as I Go away You: Life After Elvis, she stated that her son rated heroin withdrawal as a ‘6.5’, however attempting to get off fentanyl was all the best way as much as 10.

Since then her son has been ‘sober ever since’ and she or he reckons he is ‘in a very good place’.

Her recommendation to any father or mother serving to a baby kick their drug dependancy was to be ‘light and understanding’ with them and to know that assist ‘would not work instantly’ as her son had been in rehab a number of occasions earlier than attending to the place he’s now.

“Simply hold speaking to them and say, ‘Look what’s taking place to you, look how you feel,'” she stated

“You bought to be there for them it doesn’t matter what, and hopefully at some point they’re going to come out of it. It might occur, it could not. It took a very long time, however Navarone was prepared. I obtained fortunate.”

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