READ MORE: Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie haunted by Graceland gardens and what is buried thereLinda added: "I can't even tell you what I felt.
I was stunned and paralysed. I said, 'What? No, he's not. '"She said, 'Yes he is, yes he is. He's dead. ' The only thing that brought it to reality was when she said, 'He's smothered in the carpet. '"And when she said that, I just threw the phone because I thought, 'Ok, he's gone.
That's it. Nobody checked on him. '"Elvis had died, alone in his bathroom for hours, while his latest girlfriend Ginger slept in the next room and the Memphis Mafia were downstairs.
But Linda also has happier memories of their time together when they visited Tupelo and Elvis showed her the tiny house where he grew up.
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