Priscilla Presley in TEARS Discussing 'Love of My Life' Elvis

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00:00 What moved you the most about the film and what did you identify the most in it?

00:05 The ending.

00:06 [applause]

00:13 It's difficult and very difficult to sit and watch a film about you and about your life and about your love.

00:21 [music]

00:27 Sorry.

00:28 Priscilla Presley in tears at the Venice Film Festival while reminiscing over her relationship

00:34 with the late Elvis Presley.

00:36 He was the package deal.

00:38 His good looks, his voice.

00:40 There is no one like him.

00:42 The 78-year-old surprised a crowd of journalists by taking questions at a press conference

00:46 for Sofia Coppola's biopic about her life, which Priscilla also produced.

00:51 [music]

01:00 I think Sofia did an amazing job.

01:03 She did her homework.

01:06 We spoke a couple of times.

01:08 And I really put everything out for her that I could.

01:13 What about boys at school?

01:14 Must be some handsome ones.

01:16 [music]

01:19 Very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why.

01:27 And I think, I really do think because I was more of a listener, Elvis would pour his heart out to me

01:34 in every way, in Germany.

01:36 His fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother, which he never ever got over.

01:44 And I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him.

01:52 Elvis was extremely sensitive.

01:55 You know, you see him singing on stage and he has so much charisma, so much power.

02:00 He was like a wild tiger coming out of a cage on stage.

02:06 Oh my gosh, to see him perform, it was an experience.

02:11 But Elvis, deep inside, was very sensitive and a very caring human being.

02:16 Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life, not in numbers.

02:23 And that was the attraction.

02:26 And people think, oh, it was sex, it was this.

02:30 Not at all.

02:31 I never had sex with him.

02:33 He was very kind, very soft, very loving.

02:37 But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old.

02:41 We were more in mind and thought.

02:46 And that was our relationship.

02:51 Yes, he called me when he came back to the States.

02:56 That was also part of our relationship, telling me all his woes and what was happening

03:02 and how upset he was on the screen with the director.

03:07 And I don't know why he put so much trust in me, but he did.

03:11 And I never, ever, ever told anyone that I was seeing him.

03:16 And that was another issue that he loved, is the fact that I never gave him up in any way.

03:26 I never told anyone at school that I was seeing him.

03:30 So we built a relationship, and that relationship went on until, yes, I left.

03:38 And it wasn't because I didn't love him.

03:41 He was the love of my life.

03:43 It was the lifestyle that was so difficult for me, and I think any woman can relate to that.

03:50 But it didn't mar our relationship.

03:52 We still remain very, very close.

03:55 And, of course, we had our daughter.

03:58 And I made sure that he saw her all the time.

04:02 And it was like we never left each other.

04:06 So I want to make that clear. Thank you.

04:08 Thank you. Thank you very much.

04:11 [Music]

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