Priscilla Presley got emotional when reflecting on the 'connection' she shared with Elvis early on in their relationship when she was 14 and he was 24.
"It's difficult -- very difficult -- to sit and watch a film about you and about your life and about your love," Presley said from her seat in the audience, becoming emotional. "I think Sofia did an amazing job. She did her homework. We spoke a couple of times, and I really put everything out for her that I could.
Elvis Presley sits cheek to cheek with his bride, the former Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, following their wedding, May 1, 1967, in Las Vegas."Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany -- his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother, which he never, ever got over," she recalled. "And I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection.
Presley's age at the time she began dating the iconic singer has drawn criticism throughout the years, but she said Elvis "respected" her age and their relationship was more "in mind and thought," not sexual, at the time. "Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life -- not in numbers," she said. "That was the attraction. And people think, 'Oh, it was sex, it was this.' Not at all. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. We were more in mind and thought, and that was our relationship."
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