Priscilla Presley

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley tells Stephen that her new memoir dives deep into details about her life during her marriage to Elvis Presley, which was more difficult than people might have realized at the time. The book, “Softly, As I Leave You,” is available now. 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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0:00.0	It's the Late Show's Hot Show with Stephen Colbert.
0:08.6	My next guest is an actress and a businesswoman who has just released a new memoir called Softly as I Leave you.
0:15.7	Please welcome to The Late Show, Priscilla Presley.
0:23.1	Thank you so much for being here, ma'am.
0:25.1	Thank you for having me.
0:26.8	Now, it was my first time for you with you.
0:29.2	The first time we've ever talked, yeah.
0:31.5	Your new memoir is softly as I leave you.
0:36.6	It's out today.
0:38.6	It's a beautiful title.
0:39.9	What's the significance?
0:42.6	It's really my life with Elvis.
0:45.6	And how difficult it was to leave.
0:49.7	To leave the king?
0:51.2	Mm-hmm.
0:51.7	Yeah.
0:52.1	So it's all there.
0:53.5	And it was a very difficult book for me, you know, to write.
0:58.5	You know, he was the love of my life.
1:00.0	It was really the type of life was very fast.
1:07.5	He, you know, it was his life.
1:10.5	I was surrounded by six guys.
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