After Elvis Presley cut up up along with his spouse, Priscilla Presley, in 1972, he began a long-running relationship with the younger magnificence queen Linda Thompson.

The pair met when she was simply 22-years-old, and issues acquired severe in a short time. She moved into Graceland with him, and so they grew to become inseparable. But it could not final endlessly.

Linda, who turns 73-years-old right this moment on May 23, 2023, beforehand defined how Elvis' drug behavior left him risking his personal life whereas hanging out at Graceland every single day.

The King of Rock and Roll used a relentless provide of prescribed drugs to get him via every day. From ache tablets to sleeping tablets, Elvis was consuming an enormous quantity of medicine every day; and that is one thing coroners later believed is what led to his dying at simply 42-years-old.

Linda recalled Elvis as soon as took a sleeping capsule and virtually drowned as a result of its results took over extraordinarily rapidly.

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Linda advised the Daily Mail: "Once he fell asleep after taking a sleeping tablet and went head first into a bowl of chicken soup."

Thankfully, Linda was fast to leap into motion and stop him from drowning in his lunch: "I pulled him out as he would have choked to death."

This was not the one occasion of Elvis' life being put at peril on account of his recklessness. However, she confessed she would by no means reveal the worst tales - presumably in an try and preserve his legacy intact.

"There were other occasions," she admitted. "But I’ll take them to my grave."

Linda liked Elvis, however she could not deal with the infidelity he stored demonstrating throughout their time collectively.

"I struggled to accept the other women as I was faithful," she confessed. "But I was so addicted to loving him that I lost myself and what I wanted while he was addicted to drugs — they were his true mistress."

Eventually, issues acquired an excessive amount of for Linda. "I was exhausted caring for him," she mentioned. "It was like looking after a newborn baby."

Linda confessed she was scared he would "die on her watch".

"When I asked him to reduce his medication, he’d say: 'Don’t worry about me, honey, I’m going to live till I’m 85.'"

Elvis and Linda broke up in November, 1976. Nine months later he was discovered lifeless in his Graceland toilet, aged 42-years-old, by his subsequent girlfriend, Ginger Alden.