Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968. As a child, she was spoiled beyond comprehension, and was the light of her daddy Elvis’s life. Being his only child, he liked to let her get her way, and she grew accustomed to such behaviour. Growing up in Graceland - Elvis Presley’s now, multi million dollar estate, she found life to be one big luxury after another. Until one day, the inevitable happened... Elvis and Priscilla divorced in 1973. As all children do, Lisa Marie found it hard to deal with the breaking of her parent’s marriage. She had to move away from Graceland, the place where she had been surrounded by a world of easy life, and ‘tolerant’ servants, to an apartment in California, with her mother and her lover, Mike Stone. Priscilla found Lisa Marie’s upbringing in Graceland a mistake, and decided to raise her daughter the way normal children are raised. Lisa Marie would learn to deal with life the hard way. Lisa Marie and her daddy Elvis had always been incredibly close. He found it hard to cope without his beautiful wife and adorable daughter, and eventually turned to drugs. After getting joined custody of Lisa Marie, they were able to spend a lot more time with one another, and grew even closer. August 16, 1977, Lisa Marie wakes up at her father’s house from screams of Elvis’s girlfriend Ginger. As Lisa Marie enters the bathroom, she sees her father dying on the floor from a drug overdose. This experience would surely have shattered Lisa Marie and traumatised her for life (NB: This part is my opinion - If I would have seen that, I know I would be). Prescilla tried many times to lift Lisa Marie’s spirits, which had by then frozen, and drifted off. The death of her daddy was haunting her, and she had many nightmares concerning his death. In 1977 Lisa Marie was enrolled in a new European-style school in Los Angeles, Lycée Francais. Her life seemed to become more and more stable, but this was interrupted when her mother became involved with a new lover, Michael Edwards. He and Lisa Marie did not get along and they would constantly fight. Priscilla and Edwards were so caught up in their romance that Lisa was totally neglected. Prescilla took Lisa Marie out of Lycée, finding her daughter’s peers to be yuppies and snobs, and Lisa Marie had been struggling with her studies. Lisa was moved to the Apple School, which featured Scientology thinking. All the regular subjects were taught, but individuals progressed at their own rate, studying on their own schedule. Students at the new school noticed Lisa Marie had problems, and was a very confused and troubled individual. Lisa Marie still visited Graceland frequently on her short trips to Memphis. Graceland was the only place where Lisa Marie felt really safe. The only problem was that the estate was close to bankruptcy. By the time Lisa would inherit Graceland, there would be nothing left; no house and no money. Priscilla had no other choice than opening Graceland for the public. That way Lisa would still have Graceland when she got older and she could then do with it as she pleased. And Lisa would have all the money she'd ever need. But this didn't help Lisa when she was in her early teens. Graceland was no longer a place where she could escape from the rest of the world. Lisa's performance teacher spotted undeveloped talent in Lisa. She had a sense of rhythm and artistic expression and understanding. But Lisa didn't want to participate in those classes either. Teachers speculated that Lisa's problems with school might have been caused by a resentment towards Scientology, since it was Lisa's mother who had forced the religion upon Lisa. However, Lisa's problems went deeper than that. She was still grieving her father. One of her bedroom walls was covered with pictures of him. Her mother didn't have time for her, and she had serious problems with Michael Edwards. He had fallen in love with Lisa! He admits in his memoirs, "Priscilla, Elvis, and Me" that he desired Lisa physically. When Priscilla was away, he'd dress Lisa up in her mother's clothes and take pictures of her. He wanted to have sex with Lisa but managed to stop himself. He used to stand in Lisa's bedroom at night when she was asleep, just staring at her. After Priscilla and Michael Edwards soon broke up, and he finally moved out. All Lisa Marie will say about Edwards today is, "That man ... was sick." Lisa Marie started taking drugs at school. At the young age of fourteen years old she had adopted Elvis’s way of escaping reality. Lisa was taken in by a new group of friends: Heavy Metalers. Lisa dropped out of school, she constantly had fights with her mother and she was out partying every night. Lisa had turned into a rebellious degenerate. Lisa Marie had her first serious boyfriend at the age of sixteen. When they had been dating for three years, he lured Lisa into a park where a photographer was waiting. Suddenly Lisa found pictures of their private day alone in a magazine. He had sold them to the press. Vulnerable and wounded, Lisa's drug problems and wildness increased. Prescilla noticed the signs of her daughter’s additions, and confronted Lisa Marie: "We’d already been through a drug situation with Elvis, and I never thought she’d do it. There’d be times when she’d be in a kind of fog or her eyes would be dilated and I’d started suspecting something was wrong."