London - The depth of Elvis Presley’s fear and hatred of germs has been revealed by his widow.
The “germophobic” king of rock ’n’ roll “didn’t like to put his mouth where other people put their mouth”, Priscilla Presley said.
“He never liked to go to people’s homes to eat because he didn’t like eating with other people’s silverware so he would take his own silverware,” she added.
“And he didn’t like drinking out of cups that other people had drunk out of, even in restaurants or other people’s homes. So when he drank, he would drink where the handle was, knowing that no one would ever drink at that side.”
She told the Jonathan Ross Show, to be broadcast on Saturday, that only now did she appreciate how hard it must have been for Elvis to deal with fame.
The 70-year-old, who first met Elvis in 1959 when she was just 14 and married him in 1967, said: “There were so many demands made on him... How he lifted himself up sometimes I just don’t know.”
Daily Mail