Priscilla Presley has shed some mild on why she by no means remarried after Elvis. Talking throughout a Q&A on the South Level On line casino in Las Vegas on Friday in mild of Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, she confirmed that she deliberately by no means married once more, a resolve that started again when he was alive.
“I simply don’t assume that he might deal with that,” Priscilla, 78, stated, per FolksThe pair married in 1967 and divorced in 1973. Elvis handed 4 years later.
“To be trustworthy with you, I by no means needed to marry after him. I by no means had any want,” she stated. Her most severe relationship was with writer-director Marco Garibaldi, whom she was with for over twenty years. Collectively they’d a son, Navarone Garibaldi, however by no means married.
“Nobody might ever match [Elvis],” Priscilla stated.
Priscilla wrote her facet of their love story for Folks in 1985. They first crossed paths in 1959 in West Germany, the place the US Military had stationed Elvis. Priscilla’s stepfather was within the Air Power. Elvis was 24 and Priscilla was 14. His buddy Currie Grant requested her over to Elvis’s home. “Why, you’re only a child,” Elvis instructed her after studying she was in ninth grade.
“One thing in his Southern upbringing had taught him that the ‘proper’ woman was to be saved for marriage,” she wrote in Folks. “I used to be that woman. On the identical time, he molded me into his lady. I wore the garments, coiffure and make-up of his cautious selecting.”
Priscilla and Elvis’s relationship is the guts of Coppola’s Priscilla, which hit theaters Friday. The late Lisa Marie, the previous couple’s solely daughter, was not a fan of the movie’s script (however she authorised of Baz Luhrmann’s portrayal of her father within the movie Elvis, launched final yr). In emails to the director that Selection obtained, Lisa Marie stated of the script, “My father solely comes throughout as a predator and manipulative. As his daughter, I don’t learn this and see any of my father on this character. I don’t learn this and see my mom’s perspective of my father. I learn this and see your shockingly vengeful and contemptuous perspective and I don’t perceive why?”
By way of her consultant, Coppola shared with Selection her response to Lisa Marie, by which stated, “I hope that whenever you see the ultimate movie you’ll really feel otherwise, and perceive I’m taking nice care in honoring your mom, whereas additionally presenting your father with sensitivity and complexity.”
This alternate occurred months earlier than Lisa Marie sadly handed on the age of 54 in January.
As for Priscilla, she thought Coppola’s take was a well-made one. “I believe she did some homework,” she stated in an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV. “I imply, she and I, we talked about it, and dwelling with Elvis Presley, individuals assume, ‘Oh, how great, it’s nice, it’s Elvis Presley,’ however I went via the ups and downs with him in a really essential a part of his life.”
“His ups and downs, his struggles, his fears, so when you find yourself dwelling with somebody so well-known, and you’ve got been via it with them, it’s that a part of privateness that’s exhausting to surrender, it’s exhausting to share. I don’t need to give out an excessive amount of as a result of I would like a few of that myself, that’s only for me.”
