Written by Priscilla Presley and the couple’s daughter, Lisa-Marie, the work points out that King of Rock Elvis “never” considered himself an addict
in the book of David Ritz, Elvis by the Presleys: Intimate Stories from Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, and Other Family Members (2020), Priscilla Presleypoints out that the Rock king “never” considered himself an addict in any way. (via express UK). The singer became world famous for presenting a style of music and dance considered daring and revolutionary for its time.
In 1973, the year he divorced Priscilla Presley, elvis he even stayed in a coma for three days after an overdose, in addition to other hospitalizations due to his critical condition after the exaggerated use of prescribed chemical substances. In the last years of his life, the Rock king he became dependent on drugs to help him function.
In the book, Priscilla noted that, like all remedies that elvis took were prescribed, both did not see it as a bad thing, and this distinction “made a big difference in his mind”. In addition, the Rock king was part of several campaigns to combat drugs in the United States.
elvis he hated street drugs and campaigned for their elimination. So how can he be an addict?. He refused to believe he had a problem.”
The work also points out the reasons for Priscilla not have helped elvis confronting her drug habits and not even having an intervention, but she explained how that just wouldn’t have worked. “The people who ask that don’t know Elvis. He would have understood the intervention as a demand to give up the stage and would have simply laughed.”
Born January 8, 1935, Elvis Presleydied at the age of 42, on August 16, 1977, after being found in the bathroom of his mansion, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time, it was reported that he just passed out in the bathroom and died, with no further explanation of what would have happened.
For unknown reasons, the singer’s autopsy was kept secret by his family for 50 years. That is, until 2027 no one but the family presley may have access to the information.
Source: Rollingstone
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