Priscilla Presley took a drastic step in 1973 when he divorced Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. Now, she is opening on what led her to that decision.
“Elvis was the love of my life,” Priscilla wrote in his new memories, Gently, when I leave you: life after Elvis.
Elvis and Priscilla married in 1967, when he was 21 years old. The couple had their first and only son, Lisa Marie Presley, in 1968. A couple would be expected to marry only one year still in her honeymoon phase, but according to Priscilla, she was careless while the musician toured.
“My life was his life,” he wrote. “I had to be happy. My problems were secondary.”
What became the drop that filled the glass for Priscilla was Elvis’s refusal to be intimate with her after the birth of her daughter, Lisa Marie.
“He told me that he couldn’t sleep with a woman who had had a baby,” he shared the memoirs, adding: “He was devastated.”
In addition to the lack of intimacy in their relationship, the singer was also “chronically unfaithful.” Add his mood when he made drugs, and his temperament, and Priscilla was convinced that he had to leave it.
“I had to find out about the world,” he wrote.
However, despite the divorce, the duo remained friendly until Elvis’s tragic death only 42 in 1977.
Priscilla says that “he appreciated the great times” they had together and that he was his twin soul.
“There was, and there will only be, one Elvis,” he said, added: “I never stopped loving him.”
Priscilla Presley never married after divorcing Elvis Presley.
