Presley said: \u201cI do, and I told her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kielty went on: \u201cThis was around the time those allegations surrounded him.\u201d<\/p>\n
She replied: \u201cThat\u2019s right and he knew that, he never wanted to come around and visit or anything. So, what does that say? It says a lot for a mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presley \u2013 who was married to Elvis Presley from 1967 to 1973 \u2013 previously admitted she was \u201cappalled\u201d when her daughter revealed she was marrying Jackson.<\/p>\n
She made the admissions in Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, with excerpts obtained by the Sun showing Priscilla Presley describing how Lisa Marie Presley confided in her about her romance with the singer during the mid-1990s, before their eventual divorce in 1996.<\/p>\n
Presley wrote: \u201cI was appalled by the marriage. I asked her if they had a physical relationship. Like so many people, I wasn\u2019t sure. She said, \u2018Yeah\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added she believed Jackson, who was 36 at the time of the wedding, had married her daughter for reasons tied to her family name rather than love.<\/p>\n
Presley said: \u201cI knew in my bones that Michael wasn\u2019t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n
She claimed Jackson was seeking \u201cgood publicity\u201d as he faced allegations of child sexual abuse in the early 1990s, charges he always denied.<\/p>\n
Presley wrote: \u201cMichael was a manipulative man and I think he had his sights set on her long before she knew it. The childlike innocence he projected was part of his public mask.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jackson died in 2009, aged 50, from a propofol overdose, while Lisa Marie Presley passed away in 2023 at the age of 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presley said: \u201cI do, and I told her.\u201d Kielty went on: \u201cThis was around the time those allegations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14032,156,13994,2082,30641,12001,49642,9610,5494,111,139,69,9380,13726,1029,3382],"class_list":["post-60369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-daughter","tag-entertainment","tag-feared","tag-for","tag-jackson","tag-lisa","tag-marie","tag-married","tag-michael","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-presley","tag-priscilla","tag-publicity","tag-using"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}