Priscilla Presley cleared the air about dating Elvis Presley when she was 14 years old ahead of Sofia Coppola’s new film Priscilla which aired at the Venice Film Festival.
The pair met when she was 14 and he was 24 while he was serving in the Army and stationed in Germany.
The film shows the way that Elvis groomed Priscilla as well as showing his behaviour toward her, plying her with pills, throwing chairs at her, and at one point nearly sexually assaulting her.
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Whilst at the Venice Film Festival Q&A Priscilla opened up about how difficult it was to watch the movie.
The star said: “It’s very difficult to sit and watch a film about you, and about your life, and about your love, and…
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“I think Sofia did an amazing job. She did her homework. We spoke a couple of times, and I really put everything out for her that I could.
“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me, and why, and I really do think [it was] because I was more of a listener.
“Elvis would pour his heart out to me 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, really sat there to listen, and to comfort him.”
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Priscilla worked as an executive producer on the movie and it was adapted from her memoir Elvis and Me.
She continued: “Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life, not in numbers. That was the attraction.
“People think, ‘Oh, it was sex,’ ‘It was this.’ Not at all. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, and very loving, but he also respected the fact that I was 14 years old.
“We were more in mind and thought, and that was our relationship.”
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She added: “We built a relationship, and that relationship went on until, yes, I left. And 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, and I think any woman can relate to that.
“But it didn’t mar our relationship. We still remained very close, and of course we had our daughter, and I made sure that he saw her all the time. It was like we never left each other — so I want to make that clear.”
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