In a profoundly moving interview with Piers Morgan, Priscilla Presley opens a window into a life shaped by unimaginable love and equally searing loss. From the magic of Graceland to the silence left behind after the death of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla speaks with unflinching honesty—and a quiet strength that defies tragedy.
“I’ve lost my mother, my grandson, and now my daughter,” she says softly. “It’s difficult to wake up and not hear her voice… not wonder how my grandson is doing. A large part of my life is gone.”
Priscilla doesn’t speak as a celebrity here, but as a mother, grandmother, and widow still navigating grief under a global spotlight. Her bond with Elvis Presley—once the world’s most adored performer—remains unshakable. Even decades after his passing, she speaks of him not as a myth, but as a man. A man who made her laugh at the dinner table, sang gospel at the piano after late-night movies, and called her secretly from behind closed doors just to talk. “I miss his words. I miss his laugh. I miss his energy,” she says through tears.
Their relationship was never simple. Priscilla met Elvis at just 14, a fact often scrutinized today. But she insists it wasn’t inappropriate: “He never made love to me until our wedding night. I was a listener. Someone he could trust. And I protected that.” Their love, she says, was real—and endured well beyond their divorce.
But the emotional centerpiece of the interview is Lisa Marie. The only child of Elvis and Priscilla, Lisa’s death at 54 was a blow that still leaves Priscilla breathless. “She didn’t look well that night,” she recalls of the Golden Globes just days before Lisa died. “That last hug I gave her—I didn’t know it was the last.”
Priscilla reveals that Lisa had never fully recovered from the loss of her own son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020. “He was the love of her life,” Priscilla says. “She told me, ‘I don’t know if I want to be here.’” Those words haunt her still.
In the face of family heartbreak, public scrutiny, and media speculation—particularly around Lisa’s will—Priscilla remains remarkably composed. Her relationship with granddaughter Riley Keough, she says, is strong. “I love her. We’ve always gotten along. I want her to know Elvis, to understand Graceland.”
She also confirms what many fans have long wondered: Yes, she wants to be buried next to Elvis. “That’s what I want. That’s where I belong.”
Priscilla is more than a keeper of the Presley legacy—she’s the reason it lives on. It was her vision that saved Graceland from being sold and turned it into a $100 million enterprise. “They told me we had no money left,” she says. “I just rolled up my sleeves. I said, ‘That will never happen.’”
This interview doesn’t mythologize Elvis, or Priscilla, or Lisa. It humanizes them. It reveals a woman who still cries over gospel songs, who carries memories like sacred heirlooms, and who continues to carry the Presley flame—not for profit, but out of love.
“I still feel him in Graceland,” she says quietly. “I sit in the living room and I can hear his laughter… I never left.”
