Elvis Presley’s Cousin Says Priscilla ‘Cannot Speak With Authority’ About Music Legend’s ‘Final Years’
Posted: November 10th, 2025, 7:33 pm
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Published on November 10, 2025By Mike Hammer
Elvis Presley‘s furious first cousin is shredding ex-wife Priscilla Presley’s scandalous new memoir — which slams the King of Rock ’n’ Roll as a raging drug addict — and brands the book a pack of “disgusting” falsehoods.
Fit-to-be-tied Donna Presley, the daughter of Elvis’ late aunt Nashval Presley Pritchett, took to social media to unleash a blistering seven-minute tongue-lashing on the former “Queen of Graceland,” declaring, “The time for silence is over!”
She then body-slammed Priscilla and her tome, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, for her scorching of the singer and for casting doubts on daughter Lisa Marie’s claims that she was a victim of child molestation at the hands of one of Priscilla’s ex-boyfriends.
Before defending the late Lisa Marie, Donna, 85, says she “rejects” Priscilla’s claims that the “Love Me Tender” singer had addiction issues before dying at age 42 in 1977 — and questions how the Naked Gun beauty would even know since she and Elvis were divorced four years earlier.
“Priscilla was not living at Graceland,” Donna says. “She cannot speak with authority about those final years. Elvis was not an addict. He would not be able to maintain his life.”
“There comes a time when you have to speak, and silence is no longer an option,” Donna rips in her YouTube channel. “I have stayed silent with regard to Priscilla Beaulieu [Presley], but there comes a time when a person takes a step too far.”
As Globe readers know, Priscilla’s 336-page book throws doubt on Lisa Marie’s child molestation charges against Priscilla’s ex-lover Michael Edwards, who has vehemently denied the shocking allegations.
Lisa Marie charged in her posthumous biography, From Here to the Great Unknown, that when she was only 10, Edwards would creep into her room and she would “find him on his knees next to my bed, running his finger up my leg under the sheets.”
She added that Edwards told her he was “going to teach me what was going to happen when I got older,” and that he put a hand between her legs and “gently kissed” her before leaving her room.
Elvis’ only child, who died at age 54 in 2023, wrote that she immediately told her mother, but Priscilla writes in her book that “Her revelation didn’t make sense to me.”
She also wrote that Lisa Marie assured her that Edwards had never done it before and he hadn’t touched her inappropriately.
Donna, however, says she felt compelled to “defend Lisa Marie Presley,” calling her a “talented, intelligent and caring soul” who was painfully separated from the paternal family who loved her and the Graceland home in Memphis “that was truly hers.”
“For Priscilla to now discredit her daughter’s words by suggesting that Lisa’s testimony should be dismissed on the grounds of her own struggles is not merely unjust, it is a betrayal of the highest form,” Donna slams.
“It is an attempt to strip Lisa of her credibility, to discredit her voice and to diminish the truth she fought to put into public record. Nobody, not even her mother, had the right to attack her truth in that way.”
Donna also questions whether Elvis was truly the love of Priscilla’s life.
“What kind of love humiliates a man in death, undermines his daughter, and wounds his family?” says Elvis’ furious cousin.
“Love does not do this.”
Published on November 10, 2025By Mike Hammer
Elvis Presley‘s furious first cousin is shredding ex-wife Priscilla Presley’s scandalous new memoir — which slams the King of Rock ’n’ Roll as a raging drug addict — and brands the book a pack of “disgusting” falsehoods.
Fit-to-be-tied Donna Presley, the daughter of Elvis’ late aunt Nashval Presley Pritchett, took to social media to unleash a blistering seven-minute tongue-lashing on the former “Queen of Graceland,” declaring, “The time for silence is over!”
She then body-slammed Priscilla and her tome, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, for her scorching of the singer and for casting doubts on daughter Lisa Marie’s claims that she was a victim of child molestation at the hands of one of Priscilla’s ex-boyfriends.
Before defending the late Lisa Marie, Donna, 85, says she “rejects” Priscilla’s claims that the “Love Me Tender” singer had addiction issues before dying at age 42 in 1977 — and questions how the Naked Gun beauty would even know since she and Elvis were divorced four years earlier.
“Priscilla was not living at Graceland,” Donna says. “She cannot speak with authority about those final years. Elvis was not an addict. He would not be able to maintain his life.”
“There comes a time when you have to speak, and silence is no longer an option,” Donna rips in her YouTube channel. “I have stayed silent with regard to Priscilla Beaulieu [Presley], but there comes a time when a person takes a step too far.”
As Globe readers know, Priscilla’s 336-page book throws doubt on Lisa Marie’s child molestation charges against Priscilla’s ex-lover Michael Edwards, who has vehemently denied the shocking allegations.
Lisa Marie charged in her posthumous biography, From Here to the Great Unknown, that when she was only 10, Edwards would creep into her room and she would “find him on his knees next to my bed, running his finger up my leg under the sheets.”
She added that Edwards told her he was “going to teach me what was going to happen when I got older,” and that he put a hand between her legs and “gently kissed” her before leaving her room.
Elvis’ only child, who died at age 54 in 2023, wrote that she immediately told her mother, but Priscilla writes in her book that “Her revelation didn’t make sense to me.”
She also wrote that Lisa Marie assured her that Edwards had never done it before and he hadn’t touched her inappropriately.
Donna, however, says she felt compelled to “defend Lisa Marie Presley,” calling her a “talented, intelligent and caring soul” who was painfully separated from the paternal family who loved her and the Graceland home in Memphis “that was truly hers.”
“For Priscilla to now discredit her daughter’s words by suggesting that Lisa’s testimony should be dismissed on the grounds of her own struggles is not merely unjust, it is a betrayal of the highest form,” Donna slams.
“It is an attempt to strip Lisa of her credibility, to discredit her voice and to diminish the truth she fought to put into public record. Nobody, not even her mother, had the right to attack her truth in that way.”
Donna also questions whether Elvis was truly the love of Priscilla’s life.
“What kind of love humiliates a man in death, undermines his daughter, and wounds his family?” says Elvis’ furious cousin.
“Love does not do this.”