Priscilla Presley has opened up about virtually shedding her son, Navarone Garcia, simply days earlier than daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s premature demise in January 2023. The household had been visiting an animal sanctuary owned by a household buddy, when Navarone sustained a near-fatal camel chunk. “We had been petting them, and the following factor that occurred was the camel bit him within the head,” Priscilla informed Folks. “There was blood spurting in all places. The blood was protecting Navarone’s face. I’m actually freaking out. I assumed I used to be going to lose him, for positive.”
The camel lastly let go of Navarone’s head when a canine on the property lunged on the animal. Navarone, 38, was then rushed to the hospital, the place the gash on his head was handled with 34 staples.
“He was very, very fortunate I used to be informed,” Priscilla continued. “The physician mentioned [the camel’s tooth almost hit] his mind. So, he isn’t round any extra camels. Neither am I.”
© Getty PhotographsPriscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie died tragically simply days later at age 54, resulting from a small bowel obstruction that developed after bariatric surgical procedure years prior. Priscilla shared that she couldn’t think about what it will have been prefer to must grieve each of her kids.
“My coronary heart could be completely damaged,” she mentioned. “Once I misplaced Lisa, I assumed, ‘I am not going to have the ability to get by this.’ However I spotted I’ve a son that wants me. As a mother you must be there on your kids.”
© Getty PhotographsPriscilla additionally shared how she helped her son overcome drug habit. Two weeks after Priscilla’s grandson Benjamin Keough, the son of Lisa Marie and her ex-husband Danny Keough, was buried following his demise by suicide at age 27 in 2020, Navarone requested Priscilla to assist him beat a fentanyl habit.
“He stayed at my residence and I slept with him each evening, and he had withdrawals each evening. I do not want that on anybody as a result of there’s actually nothing you are able to do. You may’t give them extra medication, that is for positive. They must undergo it.
© Getty Photographs“I might be in mattress with him, and he’d say, ‘My legs damage, my legs damage,'” Priscilla shared. “I might rise up and therapeutic massage his legs. Now I do know what it is like with somebody who goes by withdrawal. It is horrible. Lots of people cannot get by it and go proper again to it. It was arduous.
“He is been sober ever since, so I am actually blissful for him,” she says. “He is in a superb place. We made it,” the 80-year-old mentioned.
Priscilla’s autobiography, Softly, As I Depart You: Life after Elvis is about to be launched on September 23.
