Thank you for your nice post.
Welcome
Tommy
It seems I find so many people who seems to hate Cilla, and I read why, and its just astounds me
I always loved Elvis and Priscilla as a couple, loved Cilla and Elvis separately also, and I just don't get this hate people have for Priscilla.
Also, even though Elvis cheated and did a lot of mean things to Cilla, I still think Elvis loved Cilla with all his heart and she loved him back.
After the divorce didn't he still go to Cilla and talk about his problems and wasn't she always there for him?
I just don't understand how people seem to think Priscilla is the bad woman, and yes she still has his name, whats wrong with that? She never married the man she is with today, so I don't see no problem in that.
Maybe, she wants to keep something of Elvis to her heart and thats why she has the last name I dunno, but I do believed that was her True Love, and she really wanted him to change, before the divorce she did ask him to go away on vacation spend time with her and Lisa, she desperately did try to save the marriage but he just wasn't interested at that time.
I don't think Priscilla is a victim thats not what I'm saying, but Elvis loved her, and I believe that love was very strong at one point.
I still think that song You Are Always on my Mind was for Cilla, maybe I'm wrong but yeah, I am sorry, I am new to this board, so I may get some backlash on the Cilla haters, but I admire her for being a strong woman, she was with Elvis a long time since she was a young teenage girl, and I don't think she was after him for anything other then him and the love she felt for him.
I like Lisa also, and Lisa loves her mom, I don't get why there is so much hate for Priscilla, I just adored Elvis with her, and whats sad is he realized way to late that they should have tried to save the marriage, thats whats more sad.
I still think after the divorce Elvis loved Priscilla and if she came back to him he would have got back together with her in a heartbeat, maybe I'm wrong on that but I think its true.
Priscilla was the one person Elvis Truly confided all his fears, thoughts and opinions, and personal stuff to, and she stood by his side through a lot of crap, she tried to help him get off the pills, but he didn't. But anyways, I am a Elvis fan, a Priscilla fan, a Lisa fan, and a Elvis & Priscilla fan, and I will always be.
Anyways, I just wanted to post my thoughts on this, sometimes when you see interviews of Priscilla and she talks of Elvis or someone asks her something you definitely do see a sadness in her eyes, but I am sorry for going on and on about this lol.
I just think things could have been different if Elvis decided to do what Cilla asked and they got away and spent time together with Lisa, maybe they would have stayed together, maybe Elvis wouldn't have let his health go real bad, and maybe just maybe he may still be alive today, but thats a big theory but sometimes you just wonder you know
Rest in Peace Elvis we miss you!
Anyone here the song Bill Medley sang for Elvis, Old Friend? Omg its beautiful, and sad its on Youtube I will post the link if its okay
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f3J7zDwQ3VI
Thank you for your nice post.
Welcome
Tommy
I dream a world where man no other man
will scorn. Where LOVE will bless the earth
and peace its paths adorn...
Welcome and Good Luck to ya Dee . I don't think its deserved but you could be right about the Backlash.
I never cared who he was with or not with . I'm mainly an Elvis fan. I don't post on other fan sites for any other celebrity. I neither Hate nor Love Priscilla but when I met her she was friendly to me. I Can't really ask for anymore then that.
Awww thanks for the nice welcome. I am just not ready for the backlash lol.. but oh well.
I am a fan of the whole family basically
But thanks again for the welcomes
Hello Dee13
Welcome and good Luck, you might need it. I can't say anything about priscilla, l have never met her, just heard stories, but everybody has there own opioions. I too like elvis and priscilla together, they were beauful, and yes they had problems but who marriages are perfect? Priscilla did want her marrige to work, but it's a shame elvis couldn't and wouldn't change for her or anybody, so needless to say priscilla find someone who gave her things that elvis didn't, it would be hard for any woman to walk away from the man she turly loved, but sometimes things like that happen. I will problay get the whiplash of this too, but sometimes you have to speak up to be heard.
Without a song,the day would never end.
Without a song,a man ain t got a friend.
Without a song,the road would never bend,
so I keep singing a song. Elvis Presley
That's why so many hate her. They blame her, in a way for what happened to Elvis.
Elvis was a "big boy" , I would have left him too. They had no marriage ,as such. How could they ;with all the guys being around all the time ?
I never hated 'Cilla, but neither did I like her.... not because of Elvis, because of Lisa. Another story and one I don't want to go into at this time. Read the book about her : Child Bride.
You'll get no "backlash" from me .....just an education.
Originally Posted by ajr
That's why so many hate her. They blame her, in a way for what happened to Elvis.
Elvis was a "big boy" , I would have left him too. They had no marriage ,as such. How could they ;with all the guys being around all the time ?
I never hated 'Cilla, but neither did I like her.... not because of Elvis, because of Lisa. Another story and one I don't want to go into at this time. Read the book about her : Child Bride.
You'll get no "backlash" from me .....just an education.
Hi there,
With all due respect. Don't forget that "The Guys" where there well before Priscilla was in the picture. She knew the situation, her choice. She chose to try and change Elvis. No-one has the right to try and change anyone.
Have a great day!
Jess
Elvis cheated on Cilla many times, maybe not when they were married but they were still a couple , and that in my mind is cheating so Cilla wasn't the 1st to cheat.
2nd Child Bride isn't written by Priscilla, I know she wrote the book Elvis and Me, but didn't someone else right Child Bride?
Anyways, I don't think she wanted to change Elvis completely , she just wanted him to quit the pill habits, those are addicting, and that is something that did lead to his downfall.
I just feel that Priscilla is getting so much blame, and I don't think she should be the bad person in this whole thing, you all think Elvis would want his fans to blame Priscilla, the love of his life? Which I do believe is true.
People will also say he was pushed into the marriage to Cilla, but I don't believe it, I think he truly loved her. I mean, he could have married Anita Wood(which was his girlfriend at one time)But Parker said it wouldn't be wise for that, so I really doubt Elvis was told to marry Cilla by his manager or anyone else, I think it was his decision only, and then I really do believe he loved her.
Also, Priscilla loved Elvis also, she just let him do a lot of things that most women nowadays wouldn't stand if their boyfriends\husbands did. She knew he cheated on her when they were together but she let that slide, she loved him deeply, but after a while that probably got old for her, she just wanted to have him, and be with Lisa thats all, I just don't understand how people can say she wanted to chang him, when in fact all she wanted from him was more time together with him and Lisa all together, and for him to stop taking those pills, thats all.
But lol I guess we will all see differently, I just feel people are putting her out as this monster and I don't see any of that at all, I just don't think (but I can't speak for him) that Elvis would want people to think or treat Priscilla like that, after all, she was his only wife, and the only woman(as far as I know) to give him a child, I guess I just figured there were more Elvis\Priscilla fans around, I like to find some of them, because I like to talk about that. I always like seeing pictures together of them, especially when they were happy
no one really knows what happened in their marriage except Elvis and Priscilla. Elvis never told and Priscilla only told a certain amount.
I have no anger towards Priscilla.
Someone else did write Child Bride. IF we're to believe what all these books say....'Cilla gave her permission to write the book; until she read it .
It's possible we do not know one thing about Elvis Presley or 'Cilla.
IF you read the Elvis books you'll see many contradictions from his supposed "friends". Which ones do we believe ?
Elvis and Me ;the book is very different from Elvis and Me ,the movie also.
Everyone gets to "pick" the story they most relate to, I guess.
I WILL say one thing in 'Cillas favor; IF she had not stepped in ,Graceland would NOT be here for Elvis' fans . For whatever reason; I give her credit for that. Anything else is debateable and your choice to believe what you want.
I'm a big believer in NOT arguing over anything I was not there to see personally.
I do know "the guys" were there first. You'll get no disagreement from me.
While 'Cilla was very young; she'd lived in that situation for years before getting married. She could/should have chosen better.
"Either live with it; or move on !!"
I don't know how many of you have been to Graceland but from all the things I've heard, it was Priscilla who saved Graceland from going under. Only for Priscilla's business mind at the time, we might not have a Graceland to visit today and I think a lot of fans should remember this when they are giving out about her.
you Right Bittersuite, Priscilla saved graceland going down, went Elvis die, he had 3 millions left in his checking acct.. after 1979the epe had nothing all.
I read this in one book , what save graceland is the stuff in it and his cars Etc. for one year, we know why they open gracleand for Tours, every year it's grow big tours,
Tom
Take a look at you and me,,Are we too blind to see, Do we Simply turn our heads and look the other way.....(Line From "in The Ghetto")
No matter what people think of Priscilla, you can't forget what she did for Graceland. I for one am very thankful to her for doing that.
Yes, she saved Graceland. She deserves credit for that.
But aside from that, I always believed her to be a star-struck leech.
Elvis left her nothing in the will, and - like a lot of people - I hate the fact she went back to using the Presley name in the 70s when things didn't work out for her as Elvis' ex-wife, and a Beaulieu.
She loved the celebrity lifestyle as much as she "loved" Elvis. I think Elvis may have loved her, but he was never "in love" with her. And there's a huge difference between the two.
I also believe Elvis was partially railroaded by her and her family, the Colonel, Vernon etc into getting married. I think that, in the latter part of the sixties, he would've just wished for her to go away. Sonny West told me exactly the same thing, as have others in the Elvis circle.
Yes, she had to deal with the Mafia, the weird lifestyle etc, but she knew what she was getting herself in for. And as for cheating, she says in her book that she thinks she was the one who cheated first after they were married (with an unnamed guy prior to Mike Stone).
Today - aside from being a truly hideous example of plastic surgery gone wrong - I think she whitewashes her time with Elvis, and plays the martyr and victim too much.
I wouldn't cross the street to meet her, or that brat Lisa Marie either.
Well said SRJ
She also head neck and tail involved in Scientology, a weird cult which she pays a percentage of her income to.
As for Elvis going and pouring out his problems to Priscilla? I'm guessing Priscilla wrote that! Elvis didn't let Priscilla on his plane when she asked for the use of it a few months before he died.
I don't buy into any of this victim nonsense about Priscilla.
I will giver her credit for being good at manipulating people and making money.
Vernon left her & the bankers/attorneys in charge when he died. I was very surprised. Maybe he thought she would "save it" for Lisa. Hard to say.
IF Lisa's guardian {in charge of Lisa's interests as a child} had not gone to court to get Col.Parker out of there; he'd still have been sucking EP & Graceland dry until the day he died. {That's all in court records}
'Cilla was dating a man from K.C. Mo. who was killed in a plane crash. When she went there; she met the man she "put in charge" of turning Graceland into the money maker it is today. So, I'm not sure how business smart she was ....only that she was lucky enough to find the man that could do it. I don't like him either .....
As for Lisa; she & her mother didn't get along for many years . Some of the things I've read about 'Cilla and her "lack of being a mother" has influenced my opinion about her & Lisa both. You can read it for yourselves to form your own opinions.
While I empathise with Lisa as a child; she's since grown to adulthood.
It's time to "grow up" , get some psychiatric help & dump scientology ,IMO.
What I find really Intriging about your post Dee... is that it is only your "3rd" post on TBC and golly gee.... it is not on Elvis at All.
Welcome to the site... hope you enjoy it here... there are many fine people here... Dovey
Opps, I stand corrected here... I notice that all three of your posts are on the same thing...
Vernon left her & the bankers/attorneys in charge when he died. I was very surprised. Maybe he thought she would "save it" for Lisa. Hard to say.
IF Lisa's guardian {in charge of Lisa's interests as a child} had not gone to court to get Col.Parker out of there; he'd still have been sucking EP & Graceland dry until the day he died. {That's all in court records}
'Cilla was dating a man from K.C. Mo. who was killed in a plane crash. When she went there; she met the man she "put in charge" of turning Graceland into the money maker it is today. So, I'm not sure how business smart she was ....only that she was lucky enough to find the man that could do it. I don't like him either .....
As for Lisa; she & her mother didn't get along for many years . Some of the things I've read about 'Cilla and her "lack of being a mother" has influenced my opinion about her & Lisa both. You can read it for yourselves to form your own opinions.
While I empathise with Lisa as a child; she's since grown to adulthood.
It's time to "grow up" , get some psychiatric help & dump scientology ,IMO.
AJR there Scientologists they can't get psychiatric help....it's evil!
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