{"id":2046760,"date":"2025-09-24T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2046760"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:25:33","slug":"priscilla-presley-waves-to-fans-after-bombshell-memoir-drops-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/priscilla-presley-waves-to-fans-after-bombshell-memoir-drops-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley waves to fans after bombshell memoir drops &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Priscilla Presley was seen in public on September 23, coinciding with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Priscilla Presley slams 'pedophilia' claims over marriage to Elvis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184706\/priscilla-presley-slams-pedophilia-claims-over-relationship-elvis-after-age-gap\">the release of her new book<\/a>, &#8216;Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.&#8217; Her previous memoir from 1985, &#8216;Elvis and Me,&#8217; was turned into a movie in 2023 by Sofia Coppola titled &#8216;Priscilla.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian actress and entrepreneur, once wedded to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Elvis Presley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/elvis-presley\">music icon Elvis Presley<\/a>, candidly discusses everything from her early years to her marriage to The King and her stormy relationship with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Lisa Marie Presley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/lisa-marie-presley\">their late daughter Lisa Marie<\/a>, who died two years ago, in her latest book.<\/p>\n<p>As her explosive memoir, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Priscilla Presley's 'wake-up call' about pregnancy with Lisa Marie\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184690\/priscilla-presley-s-wake-up-call-when-she-realized-she-pregnant-lisa-marie\">which unveils fresh details and answers numerous queries about her life<\/a> under the limelight, hit bookstores nationwide, Priscilla greeted fans in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/new-york\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">New York<\/a> City.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a stylish cream skirt suit paired with a sheer black scarf fastened by a black rose at the neck and gold earrings, Priscilla looked elegant. She styled her vibrant red hair slicked back and wore berry-hued lipstick with smoky eye makeup, reports the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/priscilla-presley-appearance-new-york-1408183\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mirror US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for her marriage to Elvis after a courtship that began when she was merely 14 years old, Priscilla&#8217;s memoir provides new insights into her story, in her own words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Much has been made of the ten-year age gap between us, but it wasn&#8217;t unusual in the South. It certainly wasn&#8217;t considered pedophilia,&#8221; she claims in the book. &#8220;Though Elvis and I had started a relationship when I was fourteen, it didn&#8217;t become a romantic relationship until I was seventeen. We waited to have sex until he married me at twenty-one. The fact remains, however, that there were ten years between us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continues, &#8220;The problem, of course, was that as I grew into adulthood, the power imbalance created by the age gap with Elvis remained. It was difficult for us to have a marriage of equals when Elvis was used to being in charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">She reveals more devastating details about their union, including his numerous infidelities. She even chronicles her own affair with her martial arts teacher and her year-long romance with Robert Kardashian, the father of Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, and Rob Kardashian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Priscilla Presley says Lisa Marie was \u2018so young and vulnerable\u2019 on wedding day\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184702\/priscilla-presley-lisa-marie-wedding\">Priscilla Presley says Lisa Marie was \u2018so young and vulnerable\u2019 on wedding day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Elvis Presley called Priscilla while she was in bed with Robert Kardashian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184430\/priscilla-presley-admits-elvis-called-her-while-she-bed-robert-kardashian\">Elvis Presley called Priscilla while she was in bed with Robert Kardashian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Priscilla Presley admits she was \u2018desperate\u2019 during Lisa Marie's addiction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184719\/priscilla-presley-lisa-marie-drugs\">Priscilla Presley admits she was \u2018desperate\u2019 during Lisa Marie&#8217;s addiction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Priscilla also opens up about discovering she was expecting Lisa Marie just weeks after their nuptials. &#8220;When I&#8217;d first learned I was pregnant with Lisa, I&#8217;d been stunned,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elvis and I had only been married a few weeks. Until we married, I had stayed home at Graceland for four years as his girlfriend while Elvis led a glamorous life in Hollywood. Our wedding had meant I could finally come out in the open. I could now travel with Elvis, attend public events, and claim him as my own in the eyes of the world. I was so excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say, &#8220;But when I got pregnant on my wedding night, those dreams fell apart.&#8221; She recalls her then-husband suggesting she have an abortion, which she refused.<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla&#8217;s new book, &#8216;Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,&#8217; contains several intimate details and tidbits about her marriage to Elvis, which lasted from 1967 to 1973. It is now available to purchase in stores and online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priscilla Presley was seen in public on September 23, coinciding with the release of her new book, &#8216;Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.&#8217; Her previous memoir from 1985, &#8216;Elvis and Me,&#8217; was turned into a movie in 2023 by Sofia Coppola titled &#8216;Priscilla.&#8217; The octogenarian actress and entrepreneur, once wedded to music icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[338913,25615,338912,61992,95813],"class_list":["post-2046760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news-section","tag-elvis-presley","tag-entertainment-section","tag-lisa-marie-presley","tag-priscilla-presley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Priscilla-Presley-waves-to-fans-after-bombshell-memoir-drops.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}