Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley’s Relationship Timeline: The Way They Were
25.06.2022 - 01:13
/ usmagazine.com
She just couldn’t help falling in love with him! Though Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley’s marriage only lasted six years, the pair had a connection unlike any other.
“I was never that confident. I mean, here he was — the most sexiest, the most gorgeous human being, truly,” Priscilla recalled of their romance during a November 2019 appearance on the U.K.’s This Morning.
While Elvis and Priscilla quickly became one of the most beloved music industry couples, there was more to their relationship than meets the eye.
“The beginning [of our marriage] was very difficult, but I knew what I was in for because I saw it at a very young age,” the New York native told the Daily Mail in March 2022. “I found out how vicious people could be. There were rumors I was pregnant, and that’s why he got married and I’m going, ‘Oh, my God, this is not gonna be good for me.’ That’s when I started not reading papers anymore or [magazines] in the grocery stores.”
She added at the time: “It was hard to get accepted. But he always told me, ‘Don’t pay attention, don’t even listen and don’t look at the tabloids. You know what the truth is so just be cautious, but be aware.’”
After the pair welcomed their daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, in February 1968, they eventually went their separate ways amid alleged extramarital affairs on both sides.
“I just kind of followed what he did. You lived his life,” Priscilla said during a November 2019 appearance on the U.K.’s Loose Woman talk show. “You saw the movies he wanted to see, you listened to the music he listened to, you’d go to places he would go. So you really kind of lost yourself. … I did not divorce him because I didn’t love him ― he was the love of my life, truly. If anything, I left because I needed to