50 Things to Know Before Having a Baby by Lisa Marie Rusczyk

Lisa Marie says any bitterness she held onto after their relationship ended gave way to clarity and understanding upon Michael's death-along with a flood of emotions. The manipulation was a survival tactic for him.' 'I always confused that manipulation thinking that it meant he didn't love me,' she says. These manipulations made Lisa Marie question Michael's love for her at the time. Look back at Michael Jackson's life in photos. 'He was conditioned to get himself where he needed to go for his career, and he became very good at making and creating and puppeteering.' In spite of her often-torturous relationship with Elvis, Priscilla said she still loves him and wants him to be remembered as he was in his early years.Though Lisa Marie says her marriage to Michael Jackson was real, she also admits that Michael was a master at manipulating the media. Another lonely night.'įinally, the loneliness was too much for her. I kissed his hand, then each finger, then his neck, and face,' she wrote. I wore a black negligee, laid as close to Elvis as I could while he read. In a particularly revealing diary entry, Priscilla wrote of her feelings of rejection and disappointment: 'I embarrassed myself last night. Sometimes Elvis turned his temper on Priscilla, once throwing a chair at her when she didn't like something he sang. 'And the television would be replaced like that.' 'He'd just blow them off the air that simple,' she said. She confirmed the often-repeated stories of how he'd often shoot the television when he didn't like what he saw. 'Nothing was done, you know that I don't think is unusual. 'Nothing was harmful nothing was done with bad intent,' she told Walters. She stressed, however, that their playfulness was just that, and was never perverted.

She learned to turn him on sexually even though they never had intercourse. Yet they were intimate - according to Priscilla, she and Elvis took dozens and dozens of Polaroid pictures acting out their fantasies. He refused to have sex with her until they wed, she said, because 'somewhere, he, along in his past, said that he wanted a virgin.' During those years, Elvis and Priscilla slept together every night, but they never had intercourse, she said. The couple lived together for six years before they married. 'I was definitely under a spell of what I thought was love,' she explained. He controlled her looks, her clothes, her hair, even her makeup, Priscilla said. He was my mentor.'Įlvis was more than a mentor.

'It was a very protective relationship from the very beginning,' she said. She was mad about him, but their relationship was very different from a typical love affair, she said.

50 Things to Know Before Having a Baby by Lisa Marie Rusczyk