“You need to apply more makeup around your eyes,” he would often tell her. His controlling nature allegedly did not stop there either. In her memoir, she even admitted that she was not allowed to cut her hair without his permission because “men like long hair.”Ĭhipped nails or patterned clothing was also frowned upon because she was “Elvis’s doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased.”

Per her memoir, Elvis’s desire to ‘control’ Priscilla was so great that he once told his pal Rex Mansfield that he chose her because he could “train her in any way I want” due to her tender age. I’d never planned on a future without Elvis.”

He wanted me to be his totally, free to go to him an instant if he needed me. Just being with him most of the time would provide an education- not to mention experience- that no school could give me. “He figured I didn’t need it, and I agreed. Now I realize that I was deeply influenced by Elvis’s casual attitude toward continued schooling.” But I did sometimes dream of becoming a dancer or possibly enrolling in an art academy. You saw the movies he wanted to see, you listened to the music he wanted to listen to, you go to places that he would go… I honestly didn’t have my own life… So I really kind of lost myself.” “I just followed what he did,” she claimed. Her entire world revolved around the star. Priscilla began by detailing every harrowing encounter in her memoir Elvis and Me and began by admitting that she was wrapped around his finger. Priscilla Presley details harrowing abuse against Elvis Presley in memoir: ‘I was his doll’Įlvis Presley’s ex-wife Priscilla Presley recently shed light on her past relationship with the signer in a new memoir and even went into candid details about the good and the bad.

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