Placing the rumors to relaxation, Priscilla Presley just lately sat down with Folks to deal with the long-standing hypothesis that her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley, continues to be alive. These conspiracies have been circulating on-line for years, suggesting that Elvis might need faked his personal dying to flee the pressures of fame and his music profession. Nevertheless, Priscilla assures us that there isn’t any fact to those claims, merely stating, “I want he was nonetheless alive,” as she mirrored on his passing in 1977 on the age of 42 as a consequence of poor well being.
The 2 received married in 1967, after assembly in 1959 at a celebration in Germany, the place Elvis was serving within the U.S. Military and Priscilla was simply 14 years outdated. She ultimately moved into Graceland in 1962 to be nearer to him, and as she recounts, it was a magical time. Priscilla recalled assembly Elvis at such a younger age, saying, “I met him at such a younger age I didn’t have time to consider life but. Even when relationship him, I’d assume, ‘What am I going to do? I don’t need to be a nurse. I don’t need to be a trainer. I don’t need to be a secretary. What can do?’ Different issues occurred, and I really like each second.”
In her new memoir, Softly, as I Go away You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla writes about her experiences, together with her relationship together with her daughter Lisa Marie, saying, “I needed to maintain the household collectively as a lot as I may. A method or one other, I made certain she noticed her daddy.” She additionally addressed the movies which have been made about her and Elvis, which regularly depict their relationship as risky. Whereas she acknowledges that Elvis did have a mood, she explains that it wasn’t fairly as portrayed within the films. As she described one particular incident, “He simply lifted up [the chair], and he simply threw it. By the point it received out of his fingers he’s like, ‘Oh my God,’ and he got here operating over to me. That’s the way it actually was. Elvis did have a mood, however he by no means damage anybody.”
Priscilla’s life has been extremely attention-grabbing, and her e book guarantees to be an intimate take a look at her time with Elvis, in addition to her late daughter Lisa Marie, who handed away in 2023. As Priscilla mirrored on the rumors surrounding Elvis’s dying, she merely mentioned, “There’s been a lot that’s untruthful on the market — issues like Elvis continues to be alive and hidden someplace. I want he was nonetheless alive.”
