The Memphis Mafia Discuss Elvis Presley's Health Problems - Part 2 

You are very right! It’s a sad reality.

Sad to say but true

Completely true.

I read slash biography and in the drug crap he say:first time the managment put me in a rehab center in arizona in the middle of nowhere,i dont like to be there,so after a week i take my things and leave. And continue:this medical places clinics make miracles to you only IF the mind is ready and want to cut the drugs. If the mind dont want,so the body cleance and when you go out,its matter or time to throw your self in the drugs.

Yes agreeeeee

Lisa Marie, Jerry Schilling, George Klein didn’t blame Parker. Lisa told Dave Letterman her dad was a hard man to manage, and Parker could. Schilling worked for him. George Klein said Parker did about 80% right and 20% wrong

Elvis's biggest enemy was Elvis, God bless him.

F_ _ ki_ g A Bubba!!! The Colonel killed ELVIS 👑🙏🤒😞❤️‍🩹💯🫶🎸🎤📺🧸...

​​​@@silverstar4289they definitely a more complicated relationship than the media has portrayed to the masses, that's for sure. Like many things and people in life Col. wasn't all right and wasn't all wrong either.

​@@silverstar4289Yeah, Lisa was there and seen everything in the 1970's. 😮

AMEN!!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🫶🫶🫶🫶

Well,. That was a whole Lot of the problem! Elvis Couldn’t sleep! He suffered from insomnia from childhood! He always had trouble sleeping!

@ELVIS 2022 I don’t know why! I just know he suffered from insomnia for a long time! Is there some way dr’s can diagnose what causes insomnia?

@ELVIS 2022 Why what? What do you mean?

@ELVIS 2022 Huh? What Do You Mean? Again! 🙄. I don’t know what you take because I don’t have insomnia!!! What Are You Talking About? Again!

@ELVIS 2022 And because of which person? What Are You Trying To Say?

Shame on u!!! The King is alive and well!!!❤😂

I agree but it's not easy to find a way out, a solution....he was in a trap! And couldn't scape for himself. Or, let's face it...maybe he accepted his destiny and let it happen though.

Wrong

I always have a hard time taking Larry Geller serious. He seems just a little too dramatic and I don’t think he he was around Elvis as much as he portrays.

@@sophiaraq No,. He wasn’t

​@@danarias2929is is ths truth

I think the Memphis Mafia all the guys they really cared about Elvis as well as Priscilla and his dad but it was such an awkward situation. He wanted to keep going to please his fans he enjoyed performing.And he knew that they depended on him and visa versa.

Elvis also had tons of people on his payroll. I saw an interview once where one of the guys said that they told him to take some time off. Elvis said that he couldn’t. He has too many people who depend on him. I also read that the band members went to Priscilla to try and get her to get him help because she was the only one he would listen to. She tried, he listened, but never got the help he so desperately needed.

@@kristine0 I don’t think the issue was so many people were on his payroll. The issue was The Colonel took 50% - absurd and Elvis and Vernon LET IT happen. Elvis was the star and he could’ve canned The Colonel’s ass. Plenty of stars would’ve done the same!

Oh, the Colonel DEFINITELY had a lot to do with Elvis’s money problems and screwed Elvis, BIG TIME but Elvis also had a ton of people to support and, we all know, he spent money like crazy because it made him happy to see other people happy. Now, I know the movie isn’t 100% accurate, but it shows you how Elvis really didn’t realize how much control he had over his own finances and how Parker was lying and making him believe he owed everything that Parker had spent. Vernon also should have NEVER been in charge of Elvis’s finances. The only reason Parker recommended him was to get on his and Gladys’s good side. I believe none of this would of happened if Gladys would have lived.

@@richardsoderkvist6383 i don't know.....When you listen to the MM spilling their guts & dumping on Elvis they sure seemed to be coming from a judgmental, deeply personally harmful stance. But I can see where they'd grow angry & frustrated and want to wash their hands of someone lost in addiction. Sadly, even family members throw away our loved ones. All I can say is DON'T GIVE UP ON THEM. If they die you will live to regret it. Try to see them as someone in the grips of something they can't see their way out of. Don't hate THEM, hate what the disease did to them or is doing to them. 💜

You're dead wrong!

invincible *

They tried to help him, however money and power will buy you what you want. Lisa had an issue with the Memphis Mafia, but she also knew her dad was going to get what he wanted.

Its very difficult to speak up to the hand that feeds you; Elvis had a very hot temper no one wanted to be at the receiving end of this; these men also had families and depended on Elvis for income; these men also did not have any skills since so many of them were with him from their twenties.

@@houston5568 Exactly Right!

Did he tell you that? That it had become a grind? Elvis hated doing Vegas! Especially after they started a rumor about him,. He was Sick in the bed with fever of 102,. Someone at the hotel started saying Elvis was strung out on heroine! That Really Pissed him off! After that he didn’t want to do Vegas anymore! Elvis actually enjoyed doing live shows,. He enjoyed seeing the fans!

Elvis Presley was drug dependent and not drug addicted.

@@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk Elvis took all kinds of meds for his health,. Heart disease, high blood pressure,. Glaucoma, twisted colon,. Most of the meds he took,. He Had to take just to live! He took some pain meds because he was in severe pain from the twisted colon, glaucoma & a few other things! Elvis Always suffered from insomnia,. So he Always Had to have something to help him sleep,. In order for that to work,. He had to take something to help him wake up! You’re right,. Addict is Not the Right word,. I guess dependent might be the right word,. Cause he Did Need Most of the meds.! Problem was,. After so long they don’t work as well!

Lisa Marie said on a talk show how she did not like Sonny and Red west 😢😢😢

I've often wondered the same. If the fans stopped attending his shows would this have motivated him to get clean and address his health? Or slipped him further into decline. IMO up to 1975 Elvis would have risen to the challenge but post 1975 I think he realised the loss of ambitions been fulfilled and controversley with him been a Southener and Christian upbringing the loss of his wife and child and knowing he was mostly to blame and him never really changing and self medicating his hurt. I think if he'd had survived into the 1980s things would have naturally improved, we all re-evaluate at 50. Only Elvis could have saved Elvis.

@@darranmartin7489 I'm not sure what the point of no return was. He fixed himself up for Aloha from Hawaii but then it slowly started to go again until the end. It wasn't just the drugs, even by 73 we're talking about walking around with over a decade reliance on medication that he didn't even see a problem with because it was all from a doctor not off the streets. It was also underlying health conditions, and early deaths run in the family. I guess we tragically saw with Lisa Marie too. Nevertheless, if he somehow maintained himself I wonder what kind of music he would be doing in the 1980s and 1990s? Never gonna give you up almost sounds like an Elvis song, he could do take on me, but a lot of it was faster paced than what he did. He preferred slower and more emotional songs versus the early rock and roll after the movie days.

@@HaedenBeck True. Even though he got up for Aloha there was a spark missing from his eye. The voice was there but compared to TTWII and on Tour the energy was gone. Madison Square Garden 72 was more how I wanted Aloha to be but i suppose we would never have the killer version of American Trilogy which after 1000s of views still gives me goosebumps.

@@darranmartin7489 That's a little surprising. I love Aloha From Hawaii. It's my go-to music for the gym. The only thing that seems lower energy or less passionate versus Vegas is suspicious minds but it's all there. I figure he held back a little on that one because it's an hour time constraint and he's singing his lungs out the entire time with only one short break in between.

Yeah, I saw another interview with one his guys who said if fans had walked away, it would’ve made a difference. A lot of Elvis’s more rabid fans treat him like Jesus Christ and could do no wrong. They make excuses for him or even make up their own facts. Elvis was declining a bit and getting bored even in ‘72 then stepped up for the Aloha Concert. The decline after that from ‘74 to ‘77 was swift. His behavior on stage got weird, his taste in stage clothes and haircuts declined, IMO. His mental state was poor (people around him have said so) and his drug abuse skyrocketed. By the way, I’m 64 and a big fan since age 6 or 7 - but being a big fan does not require me to believe Elvis was perfect or to be naive about his problems.

Nobody chooses to become an addict. In those days, doctors handed out uppers and downers like aspirin tablets. Elvis was hooked on these prescribed frogs long before he became aware of having a problem. A lot of show biz people got addicted to these prescribed pills.

If it was prescribed they didn’t look at it as bad back then. We now know Polypharmacy is dangerous.

@@syourke3 Exactly Right

You nailed it Charlotte. What you said and described is precisely what unfolded in the life of Elvis Presley. So sad really, enormous success, and yet equally as much tragedy. Thanks for your comment.

@@andrewmiller4885 So,. How well did you know Elvis? Did you work for him?

Totally wrong interpretation of facts; Sonny West wrote 'Elvis, What happened?' together with Red West and Dave Hebler, after they got fired by Vernon (Elvis himself did not have the guts to do that) as a last resort to try and confront Elvis with his unhealthy lifestyle. The people You see in this video were REAL friends.

If they were true friends they would not have written books about him and profited off their so called friendship. They were mad they got fired and then wrote the books.

@@Piece-O-Pie Really? Red and Sonny West were already bad mouthing Elvis to his fans. Elvis did in fact instruct Vernon to pay them severance pay but Vernon chose not to. Sonny admits he wrote the book out of anger. Three middle age men had nothing to pay their way thru life once the gravy train had run out and sold Elvis out. Red even recorded his conversation with Elvis without his knowledge to try and trip Elvis up. Listen to the transcript even after been tipped off about the book Elvis says 'If you need anything just ask' and 'Do what you have to do'. I'll give you an example when a girl overdosed with cough syrup these men along with Elvis tried to cover it up. Why not leave? Like I say I've met these men and whilst I can kinda get my head around Red and Sonny I find Lamar Fike and Dave Hebler crass people.

@@darranmartin7489 i am sure that tell-all book crushed Elvis. He probably thought, "after all I have shared with them and all those years together, how could they betray me this way? " I think he lost his drive after trying to fire that ba*&$% Parker and was blackmailed he knew his future was locked into endless touring back and forth across the US. He wanted to do serious dramatic acting and to see the damn world but Parker held him back. He took 50% of the man's earnings and gambled it away like nothing!! Elvis felt trapped yet needed to support the massive enterprise of his business & entourage. Elvis escaped his hopeless situation and physical pain thru drugs. So incredibly sad for this naive, gracious, generous man to end up sick, hopeless, used & betrayed. After ALL he had done for so many.

@@synchronicity1470 Couldn't have worded it better...TCB/TLC

Graceland is in Tennessee. What Jerry was saying is that Elvis was trying to cover up his use of oxygen and mixed up the states he was in.

Have you listened to them telling what they TRIED to do? He always told them he knew what he was doing. If they got too intense with him, he fired them-hired them back later. Even his cousin has told what he, Billy, did to try to get him to cut back-but Elvis knew the drugs had been diminished because he did not get the feeling he wanted.

She was with him 10-years. How do you know what she did and didn’t do behind closed doors. A man like Elvis had the power and money to do whatever he wanted.

He moved her in his house when she was a 14 year old child. There is blame on his side … he wasn’t an angel

@@georgiabelle5176 She didn’t move in with him at 14, she met him at 14.

BS ! She didn't move to Graceland til she was 17!

@@georgiabelle5176 She actually lived with Vernon & Dee! Not at GL!

You've never been around a sick friend or family member? It's nobody's fault, only the Person who is experiencing a illness can do anything

They weren't his doctor. No idea, Debbie

As I have found in life, you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves.

You saw the movie Jerry was Mr Clean ...lol

They never noticed because Elvis kept his health problems a secret! Only a small portion of people knew. Like Priscilla, Charlie, Larry, to name a few. By the way, Elvis only became addicted after he fell in the bathroom of his Rocca Place house in LA in 1966-67 after taking uppers to wake him up. He had insomnia all his life including before 1953 when he first started his career. It’s been documented by numerous people. Even Priscilla said he had insomnia and Elvis told her he would sleepwalk growing up & that’s why he took downers & uppers.

Haven't you been listening to this? They have all said they saw Elvis' health going downhill and they discussed it with each other and with Elvis, but he threatened to sack them when they tried to tell him what to do for his own sake. I love Elvis as much as any other fan, but the more I learn about him, the more I think he was very stupid in some ways. Kind, generous, compassionate, and loving to those around him, but to ignore the needs of your own physical body is dangerous and stupid.

@@Patracat they still had no clue how sick he actually was. Neither did his Dr. Autoimmune disease was not really known at the time. So, I stand by my comment. The MM mostly attributed it to the drugs, but the drugs kept him going as long as they could.

@@carpyl OK I get you now. Medical science has advanced so much since Elvis died, and they understand more about how the body works, and how drugs affect it. But I still believe Elvis' family and friends knew Elvis was ill, even if they didn't understand exactly what was wrong. Dr Nick and Larry knew more than the others because they were more educated.

@@Patracat they definitely knew he was ill. No doubt about it, but didn't know just how Ill he actually was.

@@carpyl 😢

True.

Maybe he was scared about all the change of behavior he should overcome...

He wanted to be the person to help everyone else with all of their problems.

I’m curious to see if his autopsy will actually be unsealed in 2027 or will the family try to keep it sealed indefinitely.

@@tafolse He committed suicide.

​@@earthwisdomhelpsI honestly believe that's exactly what happened. He wanted out and OD on those drugs. He got tired of being sick and tired and seen no other way.

@@garyr7027 Yes, he did not want to be here. His step brother has a lot of guilt, who at the time was also a drug addict and his "dealer" admits to bringing him the lethal dose in 3 packs the same day or the day before at the demand of Elvis. A few days prior he reports Elvis was hugging him in his bedroom telling him goodbye, and weeping profusely, like he had no choice. The final blow was the book released by his 3 former bodyguards and friends, he tried desperately to get it out of publication immediately even his manager was unsuccessful. He was tormented with fear that his little daughter would read it. The book is on RU-vid I listened to about 4 parts, it does put him in a negative light, even events are true, there is an undertone of jealousy one mentioned he was not that great of a guitar player, very detailed accounts of every thing such that he ordered a hit on the Karate instructor, and could not be snapped out of it and began drugging more, a fan overdosed by drugs from Elvis, and he was telling the doctor who was called not to send her to the ER, to "just give her the drug ritalin" She was sent to the hospital and almost died. They claim he had no interest. He felt deeply betrayed. The timeline was 14 days from his discovery of the published book to his death.

A twisted or spastic colon is serious enough. It turned out as healthy and beautiful as Elvis looked before the last, he actually had been suffering from other serious ailments. Didn't want surgery. He would not appreciate people talking bad about his precious mama nor any of his family. He lost his mom when he was 23. A sweet, humble, honest lady. In an interview, Elvis said that she could be strick but as he grew up he realized she was right. She raised him to be respectful, humble, well mannered among many other good qualities. RIP ELVIS, Lisa Marie, Ben, Gladys, Vernon and of course baby Jesse Garron.❤🙏🏻❤⚡

C'est vrai. Exactament.

Larry Gellar was a hair stylist and a spiritual guru. He introduced a lot of spiritual books to Elvis. Sonny West who wrote 2 books cowriting "Elvis what happened" and "Elvis: Still taking Care of Business, Memories and insights about Elvis Presley from his friend and Body Guard Sonny West", said it best, 'Elvis liked women!'. Read up on all the girlfriends Elvis was involved with. The list is so long its hard to remember. I'll try Lucy Debarbin, Dixie Lock, Barbara Hearns, Anita Wood, Elizabeth Stefaniuk, June Juanico, Anne Margaret, Joyce Bova, Linda Thompson, Sheila Ryan, Ginger Alden etc

What? What’s That Mean?

@@jimcowan8770 Reunion with ELVIS

@@olgamakarova5520 Right,. After We Die! But Elvis is Not coming back Here! Right?

@@jimcowan8770 This is what I meant. After we die

He did every once while I took a little too money which was common especially when you’re hurting and they even said every once in a while and this is all about the war on drugs and getting on TV they all talk that shit because that’s it’s over and over nobody wants to hear that crap anymore yet the media keeps pushing it and that’s what cells so they have to talk about it don’t you get it or is everybody stupid in America or what?