He was found unconscious on the floor of his bathroom by his then-girlfriend Ginger Alden and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The cause of death is listed as cardiac arrest but it is now widely believed his long history of drug use contributed to the cardiac incident which killed him.
In an unearthed interview with the TODAY Show’s Richard Wilkins, Priscilla remembered the heartbreaking day she learned Elvis had died.
“I still remember, vividly, picking up the phone, the reaction of not believing it,” she said. “There was no way I could comprehend…
“Going back to Graceland and hearing his father wailing, crying, crying out his name, it was probably the most heartbreaking sound I’d ever heard,” she continued. “That was, of course, when reality hit.”
