Priscilla and Elvis Presley’s marriage wasn’t exactly the fairytale story it was made out to be.
She has always publicly said that she doesn’t consider herself a victim, although the pair met when she was just a teenager. In her memoir Elvis and Me, the starlet recalls attending a party where she met the then 24-year-old Presley when she was just 14.
According to Priscilla, when she told the singer she was in ninth grade he said: “Why, you’re just a baby.” Despite their age difference, the pair bonded and Priscilla became his shoulder to cry on.
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“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 got over and I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection,” Priscilla explained at the Venice Film Festival back in 2023.
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Presley also enforced that Priscilla switch up her look and changed almost everything about her physical appearance – her thick eyeliner and voluminous bouffant hairstyle were all meticulously orchestrated to his liking.
For much of his career Elvis took sleeping pills and diet pills, which meant Priscilla was introduced to drugs. In Elvis and Me, the star described her LSD trip, during which she ended up in “Elvis’ huge walk-in closet purring like a kitten”.
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She also explained that Presley once gave her two red pills that made her arm feel “so heavy she could barely raise her hand” and her “eyelids seemed weighted”. Once she woke up, Priscilla said Elvis told her: “You’ve been out for two days on two goddamn five hundred milligram Placidyls. Must have been out of my head giving them to you that way.”
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According to Priscilla the pair waited until marriage to have sex, although she admitted that they did engage in what she refers to as “intimate circumstances”. She has assured fans that it was Elvis who made the decision to abstain from intercourse: “I never had sex with him [when I was underage]. He was very kind, very soft, very loving, but he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old.”
Throughout her memoir, Priscilla also detailed the abuse she endured from the King of Rock and Roll. She said he used to have temper tantrums which would leave her “bewildered and emotionally depleted” as he was a “master at manipulating people.
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