'HE WAS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE' PRISCILLA PRESLEY OPENS UP ABOUT HER TIME WITH A 'VERY KIND' ELVIS, THEIR AGE DIFFERENCE AND WHY SHE ULTIMATELY LEFT HIM

She planned on just sitting in the audience, silently listening as other people discussed her teenage years

- SHANDA DEZIEL

But Priscilla Presley gave the world an absolute thrill when she opened up to a roomful of strangers at a Venice Film Festival press conference about meeting, marrying and ultimately leaving the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, whom she still describes all these years later as “the love of my life.”

It’s been a very emotional year and a half for Priscilla, 78, who has seen her late husband come back to life on the big screen in the Baz Luhrmann-directed, Oscar-nominated film Elvis, starring Austin Butler. And while her family was celebrating its success, Lisa Marie – her only child with Elvis – passed away suddenly at 54.

The tragedy was swiftly followed by reports that Priscilla and her own granddaughter Riley Keough, 34, were in a battle over the will. But Priscilla says that’s nonsense. “Riley and I are on good terms,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. “We were never not on good terms...I’m there for her. She knows that. She wants me there for her to help her.”

Now, the businesswoman and actress, who starred in the Naked Gun movies and on TV’s Dallas, finds herself revisiting her own