1985 memoir “Elvis and Me.”In video obtained by TMZ, Presley admits that her parents had a hard time understanding why Elvis would be interested in her.
But she said she was a “listener,” and the megastar would “pour his heart out” to her. “I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him,” she explains. “That was really our connection.
Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life, not in numbers, and that was the attraction.”Presley continues, “People think, ‘Oh, it was sex, it was this.’ Not at all.
I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. We were more in mind and thought and that was our relationship.”The two met when Priscilla Presley was 14 and Elvis was 24.Presley added during Monday’s presser that she “never gave him up” in “any way” and didn’t tell people at school that she was seeing him.They married when she was 21, in 1967, with Presley reporting in her memoir that she was a virgin until her wedding.Presley said she left the relationship when the lifestyle became too difficult for her, but added that she and Elvis remained extremely close even after their 1973 divorce.Elvis died in 1977 of a heart attack at his home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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