Lisa Marie Presley Talks Marriage, Elvis
July 10 -- She's the daughter of the King, the ex-wife of the King of Pop, and she has two other failed marriages behind her. But now, Lisa Marie Presley is finding her own voice.
As she prepared for the release of her long-awaited debut album this spring, Presley spoke to Primetime about the raw and bruising lyrics, and how they reflect her journey from Graceland to Neverland, and back.
"I've been through a lot of stuff," Presley said, and her album, To Whom It May Concern, reflects it.
Among those painful experiences are the death of her famous father and a string of heartbreaks. Her album came out just a few months after her marriage to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage crashed and burned — after a mere 108 days.
But for many, the oddest thing about Presley's troubled marital track record is her 1994 union with Michael Jackson.
Presley told ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer that she was in love with Jackson. She literally fell under his spell, she said.
"When he wants to lock into you, when he wants to intrigue you or capture you, or you know, whatever he wants to do with you, he can do it," Presley said. "I fell into this whole, 'You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I'm going to save you.' … I fell in love with him."
Marriage to Michael
Presley recalled that her mother was shocked and upset by her marriage to Jackson. It was a typical mother-daughter thing, she said: "'Oh, you don't like him? Good. He's going to be my husband' … It was terrible."
Priscilla Presley suggested that the marriage might have been Jackson's way of deflecting attention from a sex-abuse scandal swirling around him.The singing superstar had been accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy. He was never charged, and a civil suit filed by the boy's family was settled out of court.
Presley defended Jackson fiercely at the time of the scandal, and she told Sawyer she never felt uncomfortable when he was around her two children from her first marriage. She said Jackson had a great connection with kids.
"He had something with children. Not a bad, perverted, weird thing. I didn't pick it up as that. They responded to him. He responded to them," she said.
And, Presley said, she found herself sexually attracted to Jackson. "I'm not attracted to mediocrity or normalcy or things like that," she said.
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