Priscilla Presley has mentioned shedding her solely daughter Lisa Marie Presley to cardiac arrest in 2023 was the ‘second saddest’ day of her life after her ex-husband Elvis Presley’s loss of life.

The 80-year-old, who was married to the King of Rock from 1967 till 1973 – 4 years earlier than he died in 1977 – is selling her new e-book Softly, as I Depart You: Stay After Elvis.

‘It was the second saddest day of my life, apart from shedding Elvis,’ Priscilla advised Individuals in a current interview.

‘It took a very long time to come back to phrases with the truth that Lisa was gone.’

Lisa Marie died aged 54 on January 12 2023 after a small bowel obstruction brought on a cardiac arrest, which occurred from problems after present process weight reduction surgical procedure.

Speaking in regards to the day Lisa Marie died, Priscilla mentioned: ‘We have been there all day lengthy.

She added: ‘Lisa actually wasn’t respiration, so she was on the ventilator. For hours we have been there ready, hoping and praying till the physician got here in and mentioned, “Priscilla, I’m so sorry, she’s gone.’

‘We simply couldn’t consider it — didn’t wish to consider it. It was laborious on all of us, it nonetheless is.’

An extract from Priscilla’s e-book, she described the second.

It reads: ‘That they had restarted Lisa’s coronary heart, however there was no assure it could maintain beating. I requested the physician, “What sort of life will she have if we maintain her on that machine?”

‘He checked out me with compassion and shook his head. “No high quality of life in any respect.”

‘I considered my lady, my wild, rebellious, passionate lady, mendacity in a vegetative state for the remainder of her life.

‘I mentioned what I needed to. “Take her off the machine, Physician.” My voice was barely above a whisper.’

She continued: ‘It was insufferable. I started to sob. I don’t bear in mind falling. I do know that Ivy caught me. After that, all the things went darkish. I can’t bear in mind. I don’t wish to bear in mind.’

This tragedy got here 46 years after Elvis died, when Lisa Marie was simply 9.

Priscilla met Elvis aged simply 14 when the Jailhouse Rock hitmaker – who was 10 years her senior – was within the military.

Showing on Unfastened Ladies, Priscilla beforehand spoke about how her teenage years have been not like every other younger lady’s.

‘I didn’t have my teenage years as a traditional lady, so I needed to adapt,’ she defined to the panelists earlier than including: ‘You lived his life, you didn’t have your individual life, you noticed issues he needed to see, you listened to the music he needed to hearken to, you’ll go to the locations he needed to go.’

‘So you actually sort of misplaced your self. As a lady I didn’t actually know who I used to be.’

She went onto speak about their 1973 divorce and the way she solely found herself when reaching the age of 27.

‘I realised that I don’t know who I used to be, my concerns have been his concerns, my fears have been his fears, I discovered myself revealing issues that he would say to me.’

Regardless of this, the star was nonetheless very a lot in love with Elvis.

‘I didn’t divorce him as a result of I didn’t love him, he was the love of my life,’ she acknowledged.

‘I divorced him regardless that I nonetheless liked him, however I wanted to search out out what the world was like, however the biggest factor about our relationship is that we nonetheless liked one another.’

On the time of their marriage, the actress was 21 and claimed to be a virgin, regardless of residing with the singer for 5 years.

Nevertheless, on their wedding ceremony night time she has since revealed that they consummated their love in a ‘frenzy of ardour.’

‘The depth of emotion I used to be experiencing was electrifying,’ she defined in her e-book Elvis and Me: ‘The will and lust that had constructed up in me all through the years exploded.’

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