Priscilla Presley first met Elvis at a celebration in Unhealthy Nauheim, West Germany, when the musician was stationed with the US Military.
Again then, in 1959, he was 24 and she or he was 14.
After Elvis left Germany a yr later, the pair reunited in particular person in 1962 when Priscilla’s mother and father gave her permission to go to him in LA.
Two months earlier than she turned 18, she was allowed to maneuver to Memphis to reside a number of streets away from Graceland together with his dad and step-mum.
In her new memoir, Softly, As I Depart You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla mentioned she moved into Graceland in Could 1963.
“Although Elvis and I had began a relationship after I was fourteen, it didn’t turn out to be a romantic relationship till I used to be seventeen,” the 80-year-old wrote.
“We waited to have intercourse till he married me at twenty-one. The very fact stays, nonetheless, that there have been ten years between us,” she added.
They bought divorced in 1973 after Elvis was mentioned to have cheated on Priscilla quite a few instances, earlier than she had an affair together with her karate teacher, Mike Stone.
The rationale why she left him, nonetheless, was partly as a result of the ‘Suspicious Minds’ singer allegedly thought of hiring a hitman to take out Stone.
Additionally, when he came upon concerning the affair, Priscilla claimed Elvis ‘pressured’ himself on her.
“Elvis made like to me forcefully, not forcibly,” she wrote. “His standard tenderness and consideration for me had been lacking.
“It was emotionally hurtful, and it left me with an sad reminiscence of my final expertise of sexual intimacy with Elvis.
“As tough because it was, I by no means regretted my determination to go away Elvis. However I by no means ceased to mourn it.”
Regardless of the separation and divorce, they remained linked till Elvis’ demise in 1977 by way of their late daughter Lisa Marie, who died in 2023.
Aged 54, she died of a small bowel obstruction, a complication of prior weight-loss surgical procedure, which led to a deadly cardiac arrest.
The obstruction was brought on by adhesions from the surgical procedure, and the demise was dominated as a pure trigger.
Opening up concerning the second she took her daughter off life assist, Priscilla wrote: “I considered my woman, my wild, rebellious, passionate woman, mendacity in a vegetative state for the remainder of her life.
“I mentioned what I needed to. ‘Take her off the machine, Physician’. My voice was barely above a whisper.”
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