King Of The Whole World
09-16-2012, 02:46 PM
Interesting article....I never knew that dated. I wonder if this was before Elvis and Priscilla split or after, she says early seventies.
Sally Struthers sounded a bit distracted.
The two-time Emmy Award-winning actress from “All in the Family” and “Gilmore Girls” was in Maine doing a play and she had a house filled with guests. Her answers over the phone were polite but short.
Everything changed when the subject of Elvis Presley came up.
“Yes, it’s true, we dated (in the early ‘70s),” Struthers said as her voice warmed. “What a lovely, kind, good man. You don’t know how good he was to everyone around him. He was very polite, very inclusive. But he was caged animal. He had 100-miles-per-hour energy but he couldn’t go anywhere. He was trapped by his own fame.”
Struthers told a story about how she and a friend were driving through Los Angeles late one night in December and spotted Presley in the parking lot of an auto dealership.
“It was around 11 and it was raining,” Struthers said. “I hadn’t seen him in a while. I jumped out of the car, ran and jumped up and gave him a big hug. ‘What are you doing, E?’ Everyone called him E, at least all his friends did. And he said, ‘I’m Christmas shopping. I‘m buying five Mercedes for my boys (in his Memphis Mafia entourage). This is the only time I can shop.’ But that’s the world he live in. He was a kind, kind, kind man.”
Sally Struthers sounded a bit distracted.
The two-time Emmy Award-winning actress from “All in the Family” and “Gilmore Girls” was in Maine doing a play and she had a house filled with guests. Her answers over the phone were polite but short.
Everything changed when the subject of Elvis Presley came up.
“Yes, it’s true, we dated (in the early ‘70s),” Struthers said as her voice warmed. “What a lovely, kind, good man. You don’t know how good he was to everyone around him. He was very polite, very inclusive. But he was caged animal. He had 100-miles-per-hour energy but he couldn’t go anywhere. He was trapped by his own fame.”
Struthers told a story about how she and a friend were driving through Los Angeles late one night in December and spotted Presley in the parking lot of an auto dealership.
“It was around 11 and it was raining,” Struthers said. “I hadn’t seen him in a while. I jumped out of the car, ran and jumped up and gave him a big hug. ‘What are you doing, E?’ Everyone called him E, at least all his friends did. And he said, ‘I’m Christmas shopping. I‘m buying five Mercedes for my boys (in his Memphis Mafia entourage). This is the only time I can shop.’ But that’s the world he live in. He was a kind, kind, kind man.”