Enraged Elvis Presley threw meals at fiancée over physique criticisms

Elvis Presley was discovered useless in his residence, Graceland, on August 16, 1977. He had suffered a cardiac arrest, with coroners later attributing the guts assault to his extraordinarily poor food plan and extreme use of prescribed drugs.

He was discovered within the toilet of his 14-acre property by his fiancée on the time, Ginger Alden, who was within the room subsequent door.

Elvis fell in love with Ginger in 1976 – the yr earlier than his demise – and rapidly moved the previous magnificence queen into Graceland the place they lived collectively till his demise. Before that, although, had warned the King of Rock and Roll about his food plan previously, although.

Speaking in her memoir, Elvis and Ginger, she recalled as soon as pondering he was going too far whereas they had been on vacation. “He could be like a big kid sometimes,” she recalled, earlier than asking him why he had begun consuming pints of papaya juice.

Ginger mentioned a livid Elvis grew to become so enraged that he slapped her and threatened to carry their luxurious Hawaiian vacation to an abrupt finish.

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This wasn’t the one instance of Elvis’ fury when it got here to the subject of his weight.

Ginger, who was simply 20-years-old when she began relationship Elvis in 1976, recalled one event the place he was complaining about how thick his waistline was getting whereas he was consuming a “mountain of ice cream”.

Naturally, Ginger advised that it’d assist if the 41-year-old weren’t gorging himself on such a large pile of cream and sugar. And Elvis was livid.

“He threw the bowl against the wall and then glared at me with anger,” Ginger admitted.

This wasn’t the one act of aggression Ginger endured throughout her time residing in Graceland because the star’s spouse to be.

She remembered a gunshot blasting the headboard of the mattress she was lounging on. “I saw Elvis standing at the foot of the bed holding a .57 Magnum pistol in his hand,” she mentioned. “Elvis said he had asked for yoghurt and I hadn’t responded. ‘It was an attention-getter,’ he said. Elvis was used to getting what he wanted.”

Ginger mentioned Elvis’ “mood swings” had been a results of the highly effective drugs he took to get to sleep each evening.

The star was largely nocturnal, staying awake all evening watching motion pictures and making music. He would fall asleep after daybreak, however discovered issue in falling asleep with out his medication.

When Ginger questioned Elvis on if he wanted these drugs, he snapped: “You don’t understand. I need it.”

The magnificence queen pressured that Elvis would at all times apologise after these violent outbursts.