Priscilla Presley reveals family had ‘no privacy’ at Elvis’ funeral

He is always on her mind.

Priscilla Presley couldn’t mourn her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley, in peace when the rock and roll icon was laid to rest at his Graceland mansion 48 years ago.

“There was no privacy for those of us closest to Elvis, including the family,” Priscilla, 80, recalled in her second memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,” which was released Tuesday.

“People and cameras surrounded the property,” she continued. “Mourners waited to be admitted to the house for a public viewing of Elvis’s open casket.”

Elvis, who died of cardiac arrest on Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42, was given a public funeral at his Memphis, Tennessee, home two days after his shocking passing.

The ceremony was nationally televised, and thousands of the “Blue Suede Shoes” crooner’s grieving fans made the pilgrimage to Graceland to pay their respects.

“The crowds were so large by the second day that President Jimmy Carter called up the Air National Guard to help local police,” Priscilla wrote. “It was hot and muggy, and some in the crowd fainted from the heat and from emotion.”

“They felt compelled to pay their respects as they would to a family member,” she added. “It was overwhelming. There wasn’t room yet for our own grief.”

A private funeral was later held for the King of Rock and Roll in the living room and music room of his Graceland home.

Priscilla, who admitted that she was “numb with grief” at the time, remembered sitting next to Elvis’ dad, Vernon Presley, and her then-9-year-old daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, whom she shared with the “Suspicious Minds” singer.

Lisa Marie tragically passed away in 2023 from a small bowel obstruction. She was 54.

“Lisa and I waited until we could be alone with Elvis to say goodbye… Then we each kissed him one last time,” Priscilla wrote. “I’m not sure it hit me until then that he was really gone.”

Priscilla and the “All Shook Up” rocker married in Las Vegas in 1967. However, the “Naked Gun” star later filed for divorce from Elvis in 1972, and their split was finalized one year later.

Still, Priscilla admitted that a “large part of me died” with the “Always on My Mind” singer upon his death nearly 50 years ago.

“I couldn’t accept that he had passed. I’d felt Elvis would always be there,” she wrote in her new memoir. “He was such a force of nature.”

But this wouldn’t be the first time the “Love is Forever” actress has opened up about the day she had to say goodbye to the love of her life.

Priscilla previously discussed the heartbreaking moment during an interview with the “Today” show back in 2018.

She said that she was “shocked” at the time because Elvis’ sudden death was “just too hard to believe.”

“Going out the gates in the limo and seeing the streets lined up on both sides all the way to the cemetery,” Priscilla shared. “You’d see glimpses, you’d see people crying, hysterical, fainting, and that’s how impactful it was and still to this day.”

“People come around the same time,” she added, “and they’re all there.”

Elsewhere in her new memoir, Priscilla detailed how the “Burning Love” singer once called her in the middle of the night as she was lying in bed alongside Rob Kardashian, whom she dated for a short time from 1975 to 1976.

Then, while promoting “Softly, As I Leave You” on the “Today” show earlier this week, Priscilla revealed how and when she learned Elvis was being unfaithful to her.