I wore the clothes, hairstyle and makeup of his careful choosing.” In 1985, she actually shared in a feature for People: “He molded me into his woman. These signs are textbook, so much so that she even victim blames herself for others’ behaviors at several points throughout the conversation. For example, winning over the likes of a 14-year-olds parent, underage drug use and encouraging her to ditch school for his sole company. In all reality, these are all signs of a predatory, abusive partner grooming a younger person. Throughout the interview, Priscilla makes excuses for those around her with comments like “In my parent’s defense,” implying that she was the one in the wrong for wanting to date a superstar at the naive age of 14. She scratches the side of her face and at one point says: “It was cold, and it was dark and it could get really lonely.” Walters asks her about being introduced to pills by Elvis and her eyesight drifts off. At the age of 15 years old, Elvis urged her to move in with him in what became a pill-riddled life that her partner controlled.
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