Priscilla Presley has praised Elvis, describing him as a good husband.
Priscilla Presley thinks Elvis was “a good husband” – despite being unfaithful.
The 80-year-old star was married to Elvis between 1967 and 1973, and despite his cheating, Priscilla still has fond memories of their time together.
During an appearance on the Today show, she recalled: “Our life was very different, you know? Very, very different. And when he was in Vegas, you know, he was really starting his career back again into Vegas.
“We had a home in Palm Springs, a second home and I would go there to check it out when he was in Vegas to see how it’s doing. If it’s clean, if the maids had cleaned everything before he comes home.”
Priscilla recalled that Elvis’ mailbox would be filled with female fan letters. But she still considers the music icon – who died in August 1977, aged 42 – to have been a “good husband”.
She explained: “I’m reading the mail, and the things that I was reading I really disapproved of and didn’t like.
“They would go and meet Elvis at the house on weekends when he went, and it was another life. Now, he would come home great and wonderful. He was still a good husband but it was just too many of us.”
Meanwhile, Priscilla also felt that she was destined to share Elvis with his fans.
The actress admitted that she always felt insecure during her marriage, as she feared Elvis could easily leave her for someone else.
Priscilla – who enjoyed a successful career of her own, starring on the TV show Dallas and in the Naked Gun franchise – said in Softly, as I Leave You: “I thought, well, what if he runs into someone he falls in love with? And I mentioned it to him, and he goes, ‘You don’t have to worry. You never have to worry.’ But when you see these beautiful girls hanging out, I’m going, Could that be the one?
“I couldn’t live a life of being in panic all the time, of losing him to someone else.”
Priscilla Presley hails ‘good husband’ Elvis Presley
