Priscilla Presley addresses 10-year age hole, assembly Elvis at 14: 'I by no means had intercourse with him'

Priscilla Presley opened up about her age hole with the late Elvis Presley and gave followers perception into their relationship.

Elvis Presley’s spouse admitted the 2 “by no means had intercourse” after they first met whereas talking at a Venice press convention for the movie “Priscilla.” The biopic relies on Priscilla’s memoir “Elvis and Me,” written in 1985.

“It’s very troublesome to look at a movie about you and about your life and about your love,” Priscilla stated on the press convention, based on The Hollywood Reporter. “However Sofia did a tremendous job. She did her homework. And I actually put all the things out for her that I might.”

Priscilla, who helped flip Graceland right into a profitable vacationer attraction, stated it was “very troublesome for [her] dad and mom to know that Elvis can be so fascinated by [her] and why.”

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Priscilla Presley opened up about her 10-year age hole with Elvis Presley at a screening of the upcoming biopic “Priscilla.” (Getty Photographs)

Sofia Coppola and Priscilla Presley in Venice

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola made Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir right into a film. (Getty Photographs)

Nonetheless, Priscilla stated her relationship with Elvis was about extra than simply intercourse.

“Elvis would pour his coronary heart out to me. His hopes, his fears, his lack of his mom. And I used to be the one that actually sat there to hear and to consolation him,” she defined. “That was actually our connection. Although I used to be 14, I used to be older in life than in years.”

“And that was the attraction. Folks assume, ‘Oh, it was intercourse, it was this.’ By no means. I by no means had intercourse with him. He was very variety, very delicate, very loving. However he additionally revered the actual fact I used to be solely 14 years outdated. We have been extra in thoughts and thought and that was our relationship.”

Priscilla Presley attends a crimson carpet for the film “Priscilla” on the eightieth Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on Sept. 4 in Venice, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs)

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Priscilla Presley and Elvis married in 1967. (Getty Photographs)

The legendary couple tied the knot in 1967 and welcomed their solely little one, Lisa Marie, in 1968. By 1973, Elvis and Priscilla had divorced.

Elvis died a couple of years later in 1977 when Lisa Marie was 9, and he or she adopted in his footsteps, selecting up an curiosity in music and carrying on his legacy. Her father closely influenced her music.

After Elvis’ dying, Priscilla helped set up Elvis Presley Enterprises, which launched Graceland right into a high worldwide vacationer vacation spot. The property itself was left to Lisa Marie, Elvis’ solely little one, and held in a belief till she turned 25 in 1993.