Overview

• Softly, As I Leave You was published Tuesday and extends her story beyond 1985’s Elvis and Me.
• She writes that Elvis asked whether she wanted an abortion after she became pregnant with Lisa Marie, a moment she describes as a wake-up call.
• Presley details Elvis’s affairs, citing letters from women at their Palm Springs home during his Las Vegas run, and says there were “too many of us” in the marriage.
• She acknowledges an affair with karate instructor Mike Stone but calls it only one catalyst in a relationship she says had been crumbling for years.
• The book criticizes Michael Jackson as “manipulative” in his marriage to Lisa Marie and recounts Priscilla’s decision to remove her daughter from life support in 2023.