Lisa Marie’s hardships did not start when she was an adult.
For much of their marriage, however, Elvis and Priscilla largely lived separate lives.
Despite how turbulent their marriage could often be,Elvis and Priscilla remained friendsafter their divorce.
Priscilla never remarried, but did date a computer programmer named Marco Garibaldi from 1984 to 2006.
While the two never tied the knot, they did have a son together early into their 22-year relationship.
Elvis also never remarried, as tragedy would strike just four years after he and Priscilla divorced.
Lisa Marie was never the same after her father died.
“I ran to him, but somebody grabbed me, pulled me back.
They were trying to work on him,” she wrote (viaPeople).
“I was screaming bloody murder.
I knew it was not good.”
Lisa Marie also recalled hearing her grandfather Vernon Presley Elvis' dad “wailing” in grief.
I’ll never get past that sound of him wailing," she wrote.
“I could hear, ‘Oh he’s gone.
He’s gone.'”
“It was totally devastating to her,” Keough said.
“I think that she, in some ways, spent her life grieving.
It definitely dictated her life and her story.”
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After Elvis died, Lisa Marie became one of three heirs to his estate.
The other two were the aforementioned Vernon Presley Elvis’ father and Minnie Mae Presley Vernon’s mother.
Just two years after she lost her father, Lisa Marie lost her grandfather as well.
Vernon died in 1979, when he was 63 years old and Lisa Marie was 11.
“I was never addicted to anything.
I was just on self-destructo mode.”
She also claimed that she never saw her own drug use as a reflection of her father.
“I didn’t think like that,” she said.
“Maybe it was to scare the hell out of my mother, if anything.
I was really into showing her how not happy I was.”
Lisa Marie stopped using illicit drugs when she turned 18.
However, she would eventually have to contend with an opioid addiction that began in her early 40s.
While recovering from childbirth in 2008, Lisa Marie developed a dependency on a prescription medication she was receiving.
Priscilla and Edwards broke up when Lisa Marie was 16.
Edwards himself recounted the experience in his 1988 book “Priscilla, Elvis, and Me.”
In the book, Edwards bizarrely admitted to being sexually attracted to Lisa Marie while he was with Priscilla.
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