Priscilla and Elvis Presley depart for their honeymoon.Photo: Getty
Priscilla Presleyis opening up about her decision not to remarry after the collapse of her six-year marriage toElvis Presley.
During a Q&A event at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas on Friday, the actress, 78, seemingly confirmed the rumor that she made a vow to never marry again as long as her ex-husband was alive.
“I just don’t think that he could handle that,” she said of the late rock music icon, to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973.
Despite the fact that Elvis died in 1977, Priscilla kept that promise over the past four decades. “To be honest with you, I never wanted to marry after him. I never had any desire,” she said. “No one could ever match him.”
Priscilla also explained why she and Elvis chosenot to have more childrenafter welcoming their daughter,Lisa Marie Presley, in 1968. “Elvis felt he had a very busy schedule and he did have a bit of guilt that he wasn’t around that much when Lisa was younger,” she told the audience.
“With his scheduling and his touring, he just felt he wasn’t around enough to give a lot of attention to having another child.”
Priscilla and Elvis cut their wedding cake in 1967.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
“I can still hear Joe Esposito’s words, ‘Cilla, Elvis is dead’, and that was like, I just couldn’t imagine him ever, especially at his age and all, still so young and wanting to do so much and had so much planned, and not having him, not talking to him, not having him be the father of our child," she told Morgan.
“My big fear was Lisa, and how do I tell her,” she added. “She was only 9 at the time.”
Priscilla also opened up about what drew her to Elvis, including his sharp sense of humor. The pair first met at a party in West Germany in 1959 when she was 14 and he was 24.
“He would walk into the room and it was like, ‘Whoa,’ " she explained of his captivating presence. “I mean, he didn’t realize what he had as far as his appearance or what he felt or his charisma, but there was a few times when he came around and he said, ‘Damn, I’m good looking,’ kiddingly, when he would be in his bathroom and he would be getting ready to go somewhere, but he had a great sense of humor.”
“That’s him, that’s what he would do,” Priscilla said. “Anyone in trouble, he would give them money. Anyone who had a problem, with anything really and they couldn’t afford it, even with some of the guys who needed medical care, he would pay for it.”
Elvis and Priscilla Presley with their daughter Lisa Marie.Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock
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“His ups and downs, his struggles, his fears, so when you are living with someone so famous, and you have been through it with them, it’s that part of privacy that is hard to give up, it’s hard to share. I don’t want to give out too much because I want some of that myself, that’s just for me,” she continued.
source: people.com
