Ahead of the release of her new book, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla Presley joined GOLD101.7’s Jonesy & Amanda to talk about life with Elvis Presley and after the tragic loss of their daughter Lisa Marie at the start of 2023.

Listen below:

Priscilla admitting to Jonesy and Amanda that alone time with then husband Elvis was a rare joy:

Amanda Keller: We all know that you married Elvis early and you were swept into his world. Did it ever feel like it was just the two of you? You were always surrounded by so many people. Did it ever feel like a normal marriage?

Priscilla Presley: No. That’s why I cherished the evenings after we would go to the theatre. Elvis would always rent the theatre every night, and he’d get choices of what movies he wanted to watch, and we’d usually get back home around three o’clock, four o’clock in the morning. And that was the time that we would sit and talk about the movie, what we thought, talk about the actors, and just sit down without all the guys around, and just get into each other’s world. And that’s what I looked forward to.

Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones: Because it would have been hard to get time with him because the Memphis Mafia, the boys were always there.

Priscilla: They were, but I honestly got used to it. The times that I had alone with him was when we went into the theatre, because he would run the Amphitheatre pretty much every night. We’d get all the first look at all the new movies that were coming in, and we would pretty much, you know, sometimes we’d see three in a night. We’d start about ten o’clock, ten thirty after Johnny Carson‘s show, and then we would head on to the theatre and come home sometimes five o’clock, five thirty in the morning.

Amanda: It’s heartbreaking to read about you losing Lisa. But you say in the book, from the moment she lost her son Ben, there was a terrible inevitability to her not being able to hold on.

Priscilla: Yes, that’s true. Absolutely. And that was my biggest fear because I knew that she adored him so much. I mean, he was the love of her life. And when he passed, a bit of her passed every day. And she didn’t want to be here any longer. And that was my biggest fear, knowing that she had sunk so low and missed him so much. She knew that she had her twins, but she just couldn’t take the loss of Ben.

Amanda: You say at the end of the book that people think that the Presley’s are like the Kennedy‘s and that they’ve had to bury their children. The overview of your story, does it feel tragic? Does your life feel tragic at times?

Priscilla: At times. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ve had great times, but you know, the ending is not so great. And I have a lot of memories, thank God. I do have my days, there’s no doubt. I don’t know how that stops because I’m reminded pretty much every day. I go and hear the music and hear Elvis’s music, and meaning if I go somewhere or people think it’s funny to put the music on, they hear his voice, and it just brings me right back to my life back then. But I am coping. I have to cope. I have a son, and I have to think about him and make sure he’s okay. And that’s pretty much where my life is right now.

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