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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: Priscilla Presley

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Cbs

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Priscilla Presley talks with Lee Cowan about writing her memoir, "Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis," in which she recounts her life following her divorce from Elvis Presley. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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When they met, he was 24, she was 14. So began a love story.

0:47.3

A love story with twists and turns, heartbreak and divorce, and tragedy.

0:53.3

This is Jane Pauli. Sunday mornings Lee Cowan talks with

0:57.0

Priscilla Presley, now 80, about life with and after Elvis. As we were just talking about,

1:05.3

it seems like you had to revisit a lot to write this book and a lot of painful stuff

1:12.3

to write it too, right?

1:13.9

Yeah, it wasn't easy.

1:15.8

It wasn't easy as I thought, as easy as I thought, you know, until you really start diving

1:21.6

in, you know, to, you know, the stories and the life and the ups and downs.

1:28.3

I wasn't really ready to write a book, but the more I thought about it, the older I'm getting,

1:36.3

I just felt I need to do this. I needed to do really for me.

1:40.3

Was it part of it about kind of setting the record straight? Kind of?

1:45.0

Kind of?

1:46.0

There's so much stuff out there, you know, about my life, about Elvis's life, about our

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