August 26, 2025 • 8 mins
Priscilla Presley joins Jonesy & Amanda for an incredible chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And Amanda jam Nason.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Our next guest needs no introduction. Priscilla Presley has entered
the building. Hello there, this is Jonesy, and over there
is Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, hello and good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I Amanda. Good morning to you. We're in the afternoon
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I have a first name, It's actually Brendan, but many
years of commercial radio have worn it away, so I'm
just known as Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh my goodness. Well that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jones is different, Jonesy is different.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's lovely to talk to you. I devoured an early
advanced copy of your memoir softly as I leave you,
and I thought I knew most of your story, but
it was an extraordinary read, and there was so much
I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It was an amazing read. Obously, we all know that
you married Elvis early and you were swept into his world.
Did it ever feel like it was just the two
of you? You were always surrounded by so many people.
Did it ever feel like a normal marriage?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, That's why I cherished, That's why I cherished the
evenings after we would go to the theater, as would
always rent the theater every night, and he'd get choices
of what movies he wanted to watch, and we'd usually
get back home around three o'clock four o'clock in the morning,
and that was the time that we would sit talk
about the movie, what we thought, talk about the actors,
(01:43):
and just sit down without all the guys around, and
just you know, just kind of you know, get into
each other's world. And that's what I look forward.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
To because it would have been hard to get a
time with him because the Memphis Mafia, the boys were
always there.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They were they were, but I honestly got used to it.
You know. The times that I had alone with him
was when we went into the theater, because he would
run the Amphi Theater every pretty much every night. We'd
get all the first you know, look at all the
new new movies that were coming in, and we would
(02:21):
pretty much, you know, sometimes we'd see three in a night.
We'd start about ten o'clock, ten thirty after Johnny Carson's show,
and then we would head on to the theater and
come home sometimes five o'clock, five thirty in the morning,
nocturnal exhaust.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You must have a good bladder. Your bladder must have
had a young bladd It.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was wait, no, was a movie theater.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, still they do have facilities, facilities, but I wa,
I get a third of the way in The Fast
and the Furious. I'm off to the loo.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, she didn't cover that in the book.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I would never think of such a thing. Was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
There were so many beats to your life and your
family tree that I'd forgotten about, and obviously Lisa's marriage
to Michael Jackson. But it was such an insight as
to how your feelings about him. You questioned his motives
right from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did, I did. I knew enough of you know
about him, About Michael, you loved, you know, people in
the business. You loved actors, you love people who were famous.
And I was just really concerned about because my daughter
was famous and with the daughter of what, you know,
the most famous man really, you know, in rock and roll.
(03:45):
So I was very concerned about about my daughter and
his you know, and his situation with hers. And she
knew it, she knew I you know, I wasn't for it,
but you know what, I had to back off you've.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Only shared two sentence was with him in their entire
marriage pretty much pretty much.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And that's the thing because a lot of people said
Michael used to adapt that sort of girlish, little high voice,
but in reality he speak like it sounded like chef
from South Park, you know what you're talking about. Can
you clarify that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
For us, Priscilla, Well, well, he always had that high
voice with me as well. You know, yes, I mean
he didn't let go of that, and I heard and
I did hear a little bit when we were at
at his home when he was talking to a guy
who took care of him and you know, did errands
for him, and he did have another voice. So it
(04:41):
was I don't know where that came from. I think
he never wanted to lose that little boy in him,
and you know, and I wanted to keep that. So
it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, well, luck, we'll see how that sort of ended
up there. It's heartbreaking to read about you losing losing Lisa,
but you say in the book, from the moment that
she lost her son Ben, there was a terrible inevitability
to her not being able to hold on.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, that's true, absolutely, and that was my biggest fear
because I knew that she she adored him so much.
I mean, she was she was the love of her life.
And when he passed a bit of her past, you know,
every day, and she just did she wanted she didn't
(05:27):
want to be she didn't want to be here any longer.
And that was my biggest fear, knowing that she had
sunk so low and missed him so much. She knew
that she had her twins, but she just couldn't take
a loss of Ben.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We spoke to Lyssa Marie a few years ago, and she.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Was so funny, lovely funny.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we really enjoyed talking to consolation.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That made yes as you say that she she was
funny and feisty in this beautiful, deep voice. We we
just loved her. You say at the end of the
book that people think that the Presleys are like the
Kennedy's and that they've had to bury their children. The
overview of your story, does it feel tragic? Does your
(06:15):
life feel tragic at times?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
At times? I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had
great times, but you know, the ending is not so great.
And I have a lot of memories, Thank god, I
do have my days, There's no doubt. I don't know
how how that stops it, because I you know, I'm
reminded pretty much every day I go and hear the
(06:41):
music and hear Elvis's music, and meaning if I go
somewhere or people think it's funny, you know, to put
the music on, you know, they hear his voice, and
you know, it just brings me right back to, you know,
my life back then. But I am coping. I have
to cope. Am I have a son and I have
(07:02):
to think about him and make sure he's okay. And
that's pretty much where my life is right now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Said that, one of the most common questions you get asked,
and I'm going to ask it now too, is was
Elvis a good kisser?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, I'm going to give you the answer, No doubt
he was.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I can tick that off that list question.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I thought the question you would have been most asked
was when was the last time you boiled a roast?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Let's just way I never try it again. I never was.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Asked, Well, Priscilla, we could talk to you forever. It's
so fantastic to actually talk to you at last, and
you can have an audience with Priscilla Presley. That's Tuesday,
the twenty fifth of November at the State Theater. Tikes
are available via fane dot com dot au and the
memoir comes out on September twenty three.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's brilliant. I've read it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's Fmanda's got the PDF copy of it. No, she's
got a handprints all over it. I want the I
want the hard baand thing.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I did very much. It was lovely to talk to you.
We'll see you when you get to Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Thank you, Thanks, bye bye,
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And Amanda jam Nason.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Our next guest needs no introduction. Priscilla Presley has entered
the building. Hello there, this is Jonesy, and over there
is Amanda.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, hello and good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I Amanda. Good morning to you. We're in the afternoon
right now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I have a first name, It's actually Brendan, but many
years of commercial radio have worn it away, so I'm
just known as Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh my goodness. Well that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jones is different, Jonesy is different.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's lovely to talk to you. I devoured an early
advanced copy of your memoir softly as I leave you,
and I thought I knew most of your story, but
it was an extraordinary read, and there was so much
I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It was an amazing read. Obously, we all know that
you married Elvis early and you were swept into his world.
Did it ever feel like it was just the two
of you? You were always surrounded by so many people.
Did it ever feel like a normal marriage?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, That's why I cherished, That's why I cherished the
evenings after we would go to the theater, as would
always rent the theater every night, and he'd get choices
of what movies he wanted to watch, and we'd usually
get back home around three o'clock four o'clock in the morning,
and that was the time that we would sit talk
about the movie, what we thought, talk about the actors,
(01:43):
and just sit down without all the guys around, and
just you know, just kind of you know, get into
each other's world. And that's what I look forward.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
To because it would have been hard to get a
time with him because the Memphis Mafia, the boys were
always there.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They were they were, but I honestly got used to it.
You know. The times that I had alone with him
was when we went into the theater, because he would
run the Amphi Theater every pretty much every night. We'd
get all the first you know, look at all the
new new movies that were coming in, and we would
(02:21):
pretty much, you know, sometimes we'd see three in a night.
We'd start about ten o'clock, ten thirty after Johnny Carson's show,
and then we would head on to the theater and
come home sometimes five o'clock, five thirty in the morning,
nocturnal exhaust.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You must have a good bladder. Your bladder must have
had a young bladd It.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was wait, no, was a movie theater.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, still they do have facilities, facilities, but I wa,
I get a third of the way in The Fast
and the Furious. I'm off to the loo.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, she didn't cover that in the book.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I would never think of such a thing. Was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
There were so many beats to your life and your
family tree that I'd forgotten about, and obviously Lisa's marriage
to Michael Jackson. But it was such an insight as
to how your feelings about him. You questioned his motives
right from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did, I did. I knew enough of you know
about him, About Michael, you loved, you know, people in
the business. You loved actors, you love people who were famous.
And I was just really concerned about because my daughter
was famous and with the daughter of what, you know,
the most famous man really, you know, in rock and roll.
(03:45):
So I was very concerned about about my daughter and
his you know, and his situation with hers. And she
knew it, she knew I you know, I wasn't for it,
but you know what, I had to back off you've.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Only shared two sentence was with him in their entire
marriage pretty much pretty much.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And that's the thing because a lot of people said
Michael used to adapt that sort of girlish, little high voice,
but in reality he speak like it sounded like chef
from South Park, you know what you're talking about. Can
you clarify that.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
For us, Priscilla, Well, well, he always had that high
voice with me as well. You know, yes, I mean
he didn't let go of that, and I heard and
I did hear a little bit when we were at
at his home when he was talking to a guy
who took care of him and you know, did errands
for him, and he did have another voice. So it
(04:41):
was I don't know where that came from. I think
he never wanted to lose that little boy in him,
and you know, and I wanted to keep that. So
it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, well, luck, we'll see how that sort of ended
up there. It's heartbreaking to read about you losing losing Lisa,
but you say in the book, from the moment that
she lost her son Ben, there was a terrible inevitability
to her not being able to hold on.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, that's true, absolutely, and that was my biggest fear
because I knew that she she adored him so much.
I mean, she was she was the love of her life.
And when he passed a bit of her past, you know,
every day, and she just did she wanted she didn't
(05:27):
want to be she didn't want to be here any longer.
And that was my biggest fear, knowing that she had
sunk so low and missed him so much. She knew
that she had her twins, but she just couldn't take
a loss of Ben.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We spoke to Lyssa Marie a few years ago, and she.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Was so funny, lovely funny.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we really enjoyed talking to consolation.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That made yes as you say that she she was
funny and feisty in this beautiful, deep voice. We we
just loved her. You say at the end of the
book that people think that the Presleys are like the
Kennedy's and that they've had to bury their children. The
overview of your story, does it feel tragic? Does your
(06:15):
life feel tragic at times?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
At times? I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had
great times, but you know, the ending is not so great.
And I have a lot of memories, Thank god, I
do have my days, There's no doubt. I don't know
how how that stops it, because I you know, I'm
reminded pretty much every day I go and hear the
(06:41):
music and hear Elvis's music, and meaning if I go
somewhere or people think it's funny, you know, to put
the music on, you know, they hear his voice, and
you know, it just brings me right back to, you know,
my life back then. But I am coping. I have
to cope. Am I have a son and I have
(07:02):
to think about him and make sure he's okay. And
that's pretty much where my life is right now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Said that, one of the most common questions you get asked,
and I'm going to ask it now too, is was
Elvis a good kisser?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, I'm going to give you the answer, No doubt
he was.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I can tick that off that list question.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I thought the question you would have been most asked
was when was the last time you boiled a roast?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Let's just way I never try it again. I never was.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Asked, Well, Priscilla, we could talk to you forever. It's
so fantastic to actually talk to you at last, and
you can have an audience with Priscilla Presley. That's Tuesday,
the twenty fifth of November at the State Theater. Tikes
are available via fane dot com dot au and the
memoir comes out on September twenty three.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's brilliant. I've read it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's Fmanda's got the PDF copy of it. No, she's
got a handprints all over it. I want the I
want the hard baand thing.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I did very much. It was lovely to talk to you.
We'll see you when you get to Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Thank you, Thanks, bye bye,
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