Elvis Presley’s last girlfriend, Ginger Alden shared grisly details of the moment she found the King of Rock dead in 1977 when she was just 21 years old.
Elvis’ death shocked the world but the circumstances leading up to the rockstar’s death have been a closely guarded secret in the family, who chose to seal the results of the autopsy for 50 years.
Despite the autopsy results being set to go public in 2027, Elvis’ young lover shared her account of the devastating moment in her memoir.
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“His arms lay on the ground, close to his sides, palms facing upward. It was clear that, from the moment he landed on the floor, Elvis hadn’t moved,” she wrote.
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Ginger added: “I gently turned his face toward me. A hint of air expelled from his nose. The tip of his tongue was clenched between his teeth and his face was blotchy.”
“I gently raised one eyelid. His eye was staring straight ahead and blood red,” the excerpt concludes.
During the last decade of his life, Elvis lived in ill-health after years of drug abuse. While some claim he died from a drug overdose, coroner Joseph Davis disagreed, having reopened an investigation into his death in 1994.
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“The position of Elvis Presley’s body was such that he was about to sit down on the commode when the seizure occurred. He pitched forward onto the carpet, his rear in the air, and was dead by the time he hit the floor,” he explained.
Joseph continued: “If it had been a drug overdose, [Elvis] would have slipped into an increasing state of slumber. He would have pulled up his pyjama bottoms and crawled to the door to seek help. It takes hours to die from drugs.”
A prominent California physician, Forest Tennant, found that almost every organ of Elvis’ was plagued by ill-health, having suffered from vertigo, back pain, and insomnia, eye infections and headaches in the 60s.
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He also went into a semi-coma after suffering from jaundice, severe respiratory distress, marked swelling of his face, distended abdomen, constipation, a gastric, bleeding ulcer and hepatitis.
While some claim he died from a drug overdose, coroner Joseph Davis disagreed, having reopened an investigation into his death in 1994.
(Image: Michael Ochs Archives)
“The position of Elvis Presley’s body was such that he was about to sit down on the commode when the seizure occurred. He pitched forward onto the carpet, his rear in the air, and was dead by the time he hit the floor,” he explained.
Joseph continued: “If it had been a drug overdose, [Elvis] would have slipped into an increasing state of slumber. He would have pulled up his pyjama bottoms and crawled to the door to seek help. It takes hours to die from drugs.”
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