Priscilla Presley is once more setting the record straight about her relationship together with her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley, insisting that they didn’t sleep together when she met him at age 14.
Talking to the press Monday on the Venice Film Festival, the 78-year-old actress grew emotional before the screening of the brand new Sofia Coppola drama “Priscilla,” based on Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me.”
In video obtained by TMZ, Presley admits that her parents had a tough time understanding why Elvis could be interested by her. But she said she was a “listener,” and the megastar would “pour his heart out” to her.
“I used to be the one that really sat there to listen and to comfort him,” she explains. “That was really our connection. Despite the fact that I used to be 14, I used to be actually slightly bit older in life, not in numbers, and that was the attraction.”
Presley continues, “People think, ‘Oh, it was sex, it was this.’ In no way. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the actual fact I used to be only 14 years old. We were more in mind and thought and that was our relationship.”
The 2 met when Priscilla Presley was 14 and Elvis was 24.
Presley added during Monday’s presser that she “never gave him up” in “any way” and didn’t tell people in school that she was seeing him.
They married when she was 21, in 1967, with Presley reporting in her memoir that she was a virgin until her wedding.
Presley said she left the connection when the life-style became too difficult for her, but added that she and Elvis remained extremely close even after their 1973 divorce.
Elvis died in 1977 of a heart attack at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42.
The couple’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley, sadly passed away on Jan. 12 after suffering complications of bariatric surgery.
“Priscilla” is ready to premiere in theaters on Oct. 27.
Actress Cailee Spaeny, 25, plays Priscilla and Jacob Elordi, 26, plays Elvis.
The film received a seven-minute standing ovation on the Venice Film Festival, moving Presley to tears, in keeping with Variety.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter last month, Presley said she feels “so nervous” concerning the public seeing the film, but felt like Coppola was someone she could trust.
Coppola, 52, comes from a famous family of filmmakers.
“I just got who she was, and I felt that she could get me,” Presley told the outlet.
“I assumed, now we have different stories, but she could understand this higher than any author because she form of lived it in her own way.”
The Post reached out to Presley’s representatives for comment.
In the identical interview, she also denied ever being on bad terms together with her granddaughter Riley Keough amid a highly publicized legal battle over the trust left behind by Lisa Marie, Keough’s mother.
Shortly after Lisa Marie died, Priscilla filed a petition disputing a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie’s will that had removed her as co-trustee and put Riley and her brother, Benjamin Storm Presley Keough, in charge.
Benjamin died in 2020 by suicide.
Keough was later named sole trustee of Lisa Marie’s estate and the brand new owner of Graceland.
