Priscilla Presley feared ‘historical past would repeat itself’ with Elvis’ daughter
Priscilla Presley, the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, turned 78-years-old at this time on May 24, 2023. The businesswoman and actress has constructed a robust profession all through her life, but it surely has not all the time been simple.
In 1994 her solely little one, Lisa Marie Presley (who died aged 54 in January 12, 2023), secretly married the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. The pair had met a handful of occasions, and their relationship blossomed rapidly till they ran off collectively and tied the knot.
Priscilla later revealed how this was total ordeal was aggravating, nevertheless. Although Michael, on the time, was within the throes of sexual abuse allegations, these weren’t the problems Priscilla was worrying about behind the scenes.
She instructed The Guardian that it really got here right down to Michael’s stratospheric fame: “Lisa knew I wasn’t happy about her marrying Michael Jackson. We had issues over it because of my experience of marrying somebody with that same iconic status.”
She ominously added: “And, in a strange way, maybe history was repeating itself… And maybe she saw something of Elvis in Michael.”
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As followers could recall, Elvis died extraordinarily younger at 42-years-old on August 16, 1977. After indulging in prescription tablets within the Nineteen Seventies, the King of Rock and Roll was discovered lifeless within the toilet of his 14-acre property, Graceland. At the time, Lisa Marie Presley was simply nine-years-old.
Michael was equally as well-known as Elvis, and he was additionally a sufferer of a younger loss of life as a consequence of a coronary heart assault attributable to pharmaceuticals. Michael died aged 50 on June 25, 2009.
Priscilla went on: “As her mom, though, I was concerned as I could see it could be a disaster. At that point, the right thing to do would have been to bite my tongue, but I didn’t bite my tongue.”
Most of all, Priscilla frightened that the connection merely wouldn’t final. And she, after all, wished her daughter to stay fortunately married within the years that adopted.
“You know, I just didn’t know if it was authentic or not,” she confessed. “I just worried about if she was doing the right thing. I worried about… his agendas.”
Speaking about assembly Michael after her daughter married him, Priscilla laughed: “He was sweet. But I think he was a bit nervous of me. Well, I’m the mother-in-law!”
As Priscilla predicted, issues didn’t finish effectively for Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson.
The pair’s cut up was introduced in December 1995, simply over a 12 months after they had been married. Michael’s publicist mentioned the previous couple “mutually agreed to go their separate ways” and had been nonetheless “good friends”.
Lisa Marie later claimed the wedding erupted after she expressed reluctance in having a toddler with him. He reportedly threatened her by saying: “If you’re not gonna do it, [his nurse] Debbie [Rowe] said she’ll do it.”
Lisa Marie added: “We would get into arguments because that wasn’t how to handle it.”