Elvis suggested to get Priscilla ‘an abortion’ after she had become pregnant
Priscilla Presley has revealed that Elvis openly asked her if she wanted an abortion after she unexpectedly became pregnant on their wedding evening, Radaronline.com Can report.
Elvis’s widow makes the revelation in her long -awaited new memoirs, Softly when I leave you.
Priscilla fell in love with Elvis when she was only 14 years old. The two married in 1967, when she was 21, and the Nude gun Star learned shortly after she was pregnant from their only daughter, Lisa Marie.
In her new Tell-All, the now 80-year-old acquaintance after he was forced to hide their romance for so long, the discovery of the pregnancy came too fast.
“Our wedding had led me to finally come out,” she writes. “I was so excited. But when I got pregnant on my wedding evening, those dreams fell apart.”
She added that nor Elvis felt ready for a child, and she confessed that she was wondering if it would have been easier if she hadn’t done.
“For weeks, Elvis and I made a silence about what would come. At my lowest point I even wondered how I would feel if I had an accident and had a miscarriage,” she writes. “I felt so guilty that I even had these thoughts.”
When he saw the emotional toll who took the shock pregnancies her life, Elvis asked her an impossible question.
“(He) looked at me one day and asked if I wanted an abortion,” says Priscilla. “He told me he would support what I wanted.”
They mentioned his questions a ‘wake-up call’.
“The enormous size of it touched me frontally and I started crying. I said to him:” No! We can’t do that. This is our baby! “
Elvis and Priscilla fell in love with Lisa-Marie the moment they first met her. Shortly thereafter their marriage would fall apart and Priscilla left the king in 1972 in the midst of her scorching affair with martial artist Mike Stone.
Priscilla shares in her new book that Elvis was humiliated and furious when she announced that she was leaving him.
“Elvis found the thought of me with another man unbearable,” she writes. “In the weeks after my departure he told the boys that” Mike had to die “. He even asked Joe (Esposito) to find a hit.”
Priscilla further claimed that Esposito told her about the requirements of Elvis and warned her to “be careful” and to stay away from her ex. Eventually, Elvis calmed down and the alleged “hit” dropped on Priscilla.
She would continue with Stone for another three years before the couple went their own way in 1975.
During their marriage, Priscilla and Elvis seemed to have it all. But in reality his young wife was desperately unhappy.
Her escape was a dance class that she followed “to break out a bit,” she said. She also started taking karate lessons, earned a green belt after Elvis had introduced her to Stone instructor.
A friend trusted: “Mike became Priscilla’s close confidant.”
While their relationship continued to deteriorate, Elvis and Priscilla separated in 1973. The shattered love was really traumatic for the king, and it got worse when she started dating stone.
“He had been destroyed for two reasons: Elvis was still in love with her and he had lost control of her”, Chris Hutchins, author of Elvis: a personal memoirEarlier said. “Suddenly Priscilla was in the life of another man and it made Elvis whole, very angry. He was a good man, but he was crazy about anger.”
