Priscilla Presley with Barbara Walters 1985

have. this beautiful baby and now you find yourself like now you realize that your husband doesn't want to go to bed with you yeah Alice had a hard time dealing with her mother and the little girl that I was to him and that's what I didn't do I knew then , but that's how I discovered it and realized in later years, but he was a father. For me he was my mentor, I wanted to show myself any kind of vulnerability and security, it wasn't macho, it wasn't something he felt I should see , so our communication was horrible, it was terrible, I mean, today, I mean, it probably would be. able to communicate with him much more.

I wish you knew how to deal with that. I didn't know how to deal with it. So Priscilla in your book there was a quote from your own diary that you wrote in. I quote: I was a black man. robe late as close as I could to Elvis I kissed his hand then each finger then his neck then his face but I waited too long his sleeping pills had kicked in another lonely night that's how it ends how you could stand that um I didn't really I didn't I did, there weren't many more nights I could last um, you can be so much to someone I mean, I was everything to him I loved him I loved him today I couldn't help it, I mean, he was a wonderful person but there are times you have to think on yourself and I didn't want to follow the program anymore and we all have to take responsibility for ourselves and that's when it hit me, I had to take responsibility for myself. couldn't be life support and one day you walked in and said, "I'm leaving", there was another man in your life, he was your karate teacher, right, Mike, and then you left and lived with him, yeah, it was said that Elvis tried it.

To kill him he wanted to be killed, right? Do you believe that? I think at that moment yes, I wanted that to happen. Did you do anything about it? change I wasn't living in the real world I was living in a bubble and I discovered I had my own taste I had things I liked that weren't Elvis's I found Priscilla now you're an actress, a successful actress, right? It's wonderful to be known when people see you as Jenna Wade and not Elvis Presley. That's why it's different. There were times when I didn't even feel like a person.

I mean, Elvis was always the worried person. He was, first and foremost, no one cared about you. Nobody. he cared about your feelings, about what she, about what you're going through, about your sensitivities, that was never there and so, now I feel like a person and I feel like I'm accepted in some way and Elvis changed, I mean, I remember those pictures of Elvis in those last few years, that fat, bloated man, what do you think happened? We talked a lot after we broke up, in fact we had become very close and again the insecurity set by age said he had a horrible fear of approaching 40, it approaches very quickly, um, him.

He wasn't satisfied, he wasn't happy with the state of his career and it was hard to be around to see him. One of the main questions that has been asked: did he die from drugs? He probably took a toll on her. I think it coincided with his stress due to his weight. In recent years he didn't take care of himself and, despite what has been said, people tried to get him to take care of himself and go to the hospital, but he honestly thought he had it under control. I didn't think you knew. he was so bad the fact that even with all the weird things about him that are very disturbing when you read it today and while I was talking to you we got a lot of information out that is painful mhm and yet you still love him you still did good with him I do , I never loved him and for me leaving was the most important decision in my life, no one is perfect, he was a human being, that is the aspect I am trying to show, that is the only intention at all.

The book is to show a love story, a man, me, another artist, not the image, not the idol, do you still absolutely love him? How would you like Elvis to be remembered? I think, in the early years, I look at that and think that's it. He was having fun, you can see it in his movies, he was a very humble man, he had a great sense of humor and it was such a joy to be on stage, yes.