FORTY years after Elvis keeled over from a drugrelated heart attack, his ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, has dropped a bombshell — The King of Rock ’n’ Roll’s tragic end wasn’t accidental, he wanted to die!
Priscilla, the mom of Elvis’ only child, Lisa Marie, says the 42-year-old superstar was in a losing battle with obesity and pill addiction and aware his bad habits were killing him at the time of his Aug. 16, 1977, death in the bathroom of his Memphis mansion, Graceland.
“He knew what he was doing,” says Priscilla, 72, an executive producer of the April 14 HBO documentary, Elvis Presley: The Searcher.
“People go ‘Why didn’t anyone do anything?’ Well, that’s not true. People there in the inner group did — but you did not tell Elvis what…
