Elvis and Me

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That betrayal would be the beginning of the end for the couple, who would each go on to have their own extramarital affairs. Elvis and Ann-Margret would stay friends until his death in 1977, but Priscilla wouldn’t meet her until his funeral. “Ann expressed her sympathy so sincerely,” she writes. “I felt a genuine bond with her.” Did Elvis sexually assault Priscilla? The couple left the divorce court hand in hand and neither ever remarried. Priscilla says she had regular long late-night phone calls with her troubled ex-husband up until a matter of days before his death at Graceland in 1977, at the age of 42.

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The 78-year-old also clarified that when she left Presley years later, “it wasn’t because I didn’t love him – he was the love of my life. It was the lifestyle that was so difficult for me … We had our daughter and I made sure that he saw her all the time. It was like we never left each other. I want to make that clear.” For much of his career, Elvis took sleeping pills and diet pills, but Priscilla writes that his addiction worsened in the years before his death when he started taking more “powerful, unnecessary prescribed drugs to raise his spirits and ward off boredom.” But there was also a period in his life with Priscilla when he was “seeking a higher state of consciousness,” dabbling in psychedelics. In Elvis and Me, she describes a LSD trip in which she “found [herself] in Elvis’s huge walk-in closet, purring like a kitten.” This freak-out inspires one of the funniest moments in Priscilla — and is by far the trippiest scene in any Sofia Coppola film. Did Elvis take up with a spiritual guru? Priscilla Presley was the greatest love of Elvis' adult life and this book clearly conveys many reasons to justify Elvis' love. Her words are heartfelt, sincere, and as "objective" as one could "hope for" under the circumstances.

It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why. I really do think it was because I was more of a listener,” she said. “Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother, which he never ever got over. And I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection.” The Los Angeles Times 's Robert Hilburn wrote a critical review of the memoir, concluding: "Priscilla's intent here no doubt was to share her love for her late husband, but the book is little more than a carnival curio in what has become the sideshow called Elvis. The larger question raised by the book is the obligation survivors have to famous loved ones. One rule of thumb may be this paraphrase on the old saw: 'If you can't say anything significant, don't say anything at all. '" [5] Priscilla LOVED Elvis and within a year (i.e. 9 months to the day of their marriage) she was raising their daughter...Lisa Marie. The days of traveling off to Las Vegas, or Hawaii, "unplanned" were over. However, Elvis' desire to travel "spur of the moment" remained "alive and well". When Elvis returned to the US after serving time in the army, Priscilla said that he asked her to promise to stay "untouched, as I left you." He repeated this as she bid goodbye to him after her first visit to Graceland almost two years later.

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The beginning [of the marriage] was very difficult, but I knew what I was in for because I saw it at a very young age,” she says in Bendigo. Presley admitted he had a number of affairs with some of the women who co-starred in his films, but all the relationships were before he met Priscilla and "meant nothing." Nevertheless, she understood these affairs were going on, while he was professing love to Anita Wood. While describing a "cleansing period" in Elvis's life, Priscilla claims that "any sexual temptations were against everything he was striving for, and he did not wish to betray me, the girl waiting for him, at home, who was preparing to be his wife."

I posted some pics along with my review on IG if you’re so inclined 😃 - I just love the old pictures. They go hand in hand with my general nosiness. I kept wanting more. More details. More in depth analysis about them. Yet I understand that this is their story and only their story to tell. No one else can or even has the right to share this. I’m certain that there is some bias in this book and that it’s not 100% impartial.I found out how vicious people could be … there were rumours I was pregnant, and that’s why he got married and I’m going, ‘Oh my God, this is not gonna be good for me.’ Priscilla’s age meant they couldn’t go out in public, but they still saw each other often. The only thing they didn’t do was consummate their relationship. As his time in the Army came to a close, Priscilla wanted to do so, but Elvis told her, “Someday we will, Priscilla, but not now. You’re just too young.” Elvis and Priscilla reconnected two years after he was discharged Priscilla also writes of other times she became suspicious of Elvis' infidelity. One such time was when Elvis released " (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame,” Priscilla wondered, at that time, if Elvis was dating a girl named Donna Marie. [ citation needed] The Ann-Margret affair [ edit ]