Elvis Presley brought a devastating change around to his marriage to Priscilla after their only child, the late Lisa Marie Presley, was born back in 1968.
The musical icon and his ex-wife had a “passionate” and “full of adventure” relationship until the arrival of their daughter, however things changed soon after due to deep rooted feelings Elvis had.
Heartbreakingly for Priscilla, it meant he could no longer have sex with her and both eventually strayed to satisfy their needs before they divorced.
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Writing in her memoir Elvis and Me, Priscilla, 77, said: “He had mentioned to me before we were married that he had never been able to make love to a woman who had a child.”
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And when Lisa Marie was born, Elvis had a “hard time” looking at Priscilla as his wife, rather than just a mother.
Priscilla wrote: “I [was] beginning to doubt my own sexuality as a woman. My physical and emotional needs were unfulfilled.”
She went on to have a short fling with her dance teacher and then had an affair with her karate teacher Mike Stone.
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Priscilla and Elvis split up after six years and finalised their divorce in 1973, though things were amicable.
Elvis’s good friend Sonny West previously explained why the King had such a difficult time with Priscilla after Lisa Marie’s birth.
He said: “It didn’t come easy for Elvis to be a committed husband. Elvis viewed her as a mother first and a wife second, and he had hang-ups about making love with her.”
And it was because of the relationship Elvis had with his mother Gladys.
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Sonny said: “She gave him so much love and attention when he was growing up that he came to put all mothers on a special pedestal.
“The idea of sex with a mother was, to Elvis, out of the question.”
This week would have been Elvis and Priscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie’s 55th birthday.
She tragically died at the age of 54 in January 2023 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The singer-songwriter is survived by her three children: actress Riley Keough, Finley Lockwood, and Harper Lockwood.
Her other son Benjamin died at the age of 27 in 2020.
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