Priscilla Presley will discuss "a life shaped by fame, love, and the search for her own identity" at Life After Elvis: An Audience With Priscilla Presley at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on 1 October.
The 79-year-old American businesswoman and actress and widow of Elvis Presley will draw from her forthcoming memoir Softly, As I Leave You, and reflect on "what it took to leave, what she lost in the process, and that she ultimately found: strength, purpose, and a life beyond the legend", according to the show's promotors.
14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu (later Presley) first met Elvis at a party in Bad Nauheim, West Germany, in 1959, when he was 24 and serving in the US Army.
After she lived in Elvis’s home in Graceland for several years, they married when she was 21 and had one child, the late Lisa Marie Presley, who passed away in 2023. The couple divorced in 1973.
According to the promotors of the NCH show, "From the outside, life at Graceland looked like a gilded, glamorous, and untouchable dream. But behind closed doors, Priscilla was navigating a world that left little room for her own identity.
"Married at 21 and surrounded by Elvis’s ever-present entourage, she began to realise that the only way to survive was to step away from a life the world envied.
"In this deeply personal conversation drawing from her forthcoming memoir Softly, As I Leave You, Priscilla will reflect on what it took to leave, what she lost in the process, and that she ultimately found: strength, purpose, and a life beyond the legend."
The NCH show she will open up about her relationship with Elvis after their separation, her years as a single mother, and how she reinvented herself after Elvis’ death.
Presley later enjoyed a successful acting career and co-starred with Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun film trilogy and played Jenna Wade on the long-running television series Dallas.
Her early life and marriage to Elvis was portrayed in Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed movie Priscilla in 2024.
A limited number of premium tickets include an "intimate" 30-minute pre-show conversation with Presley and a copy of Softly, As I Leave You with a dedication in the book and a selfie.
Tickets for An Audience with Priscilla Presley at the NCH are priced from €55.00 are on sale here this Friday at 10am.
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