MY UNTOLD Story

PRISCILLA PRESLEY IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER ILL-FATED MARRIAGE TO ELVIS AND HER GRIEF OVER LOSING THEIR DAUGHTER, LISA MARIE, EARLIER THIS YEAR.

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SOFIA COPPOLA’S long-awaited movie Priscilla received a seven-minute standing ovation when it debuted at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 4. As audience members cheered for the cast and crew, an emotional Priscilla Presley wiped away tears and hugged actress Cailee Spaeny, who plays her in the biopic. (The movie is based on Priscilla’s bestselling 1985 memoir, Elvis & Me.) “It’s very difficult to sit and watch a film about you,” said Priscilla at the festival, “about your life, about your love.”

It’s been nearly five decades since Priscilla and Elvis Presley divorced and 46 years since the King of Rock and Roll died tragically from a heart attack at the age of 42, but the feelings remain close to the surface for Priscilla, 78. She’s also still coping with fresh grief over the loss of her beloved daughter, Lisa Marie, who passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 12 due to complications from weight-loss surgery she’d undergone several years earlier. (She was 54.) Now the actress, author and businesswoman is telling all about losing the two people closest to her, what her marriage to Elvis was really like behind the scenes and her biggest regrets.

LIFE WITH ELVIS