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Linda Thompson: And he died in August. He died 8 months [no. 8 again !!!] after we broke up.Larry King: Where were you when he died?Linda Thompson: I was in Los Angeles at my apartment.Larry King: How did you hear?Linda Thompson: My phone rang, and it was Lisa Marie, who was only nine years old at the time, and she used to call me from time to time because we were very close. As I said, I loved her a lot then. I love her a lot now. And she said, Linda, it's Lisa.I said, I know who you are, little goobernickel. But she had this desperate tone in her voice, and I thought she was playing. I thought maybe she was just out of breath. She said, my daddy's dead. My daddy's dead. And I threw the phone in the air. I just threw the phone away. I said, no, no, he's not.And then I looked at the phone on the ground and I thought, here's this little 9-year-old angel who has the presence of mind to call me long distance directly. I have got to pick up this phone. I have got to say something to her that's gonna help her. So I pick up the phone. I say, honey, are you sure he's not just going to the hospital and he's not just having an episode or a problem, a breathing problem?No, no. They told me, he's dead. So I just started trying to say things to her to comfort her. Like your daddy loves you so much. You'll always have that love, and that doesn't die. And my brother took the phone from Lisa and said, Linda, you have to come home.My brother was a bodyguard. My brother Sam Thompson was a bodyguard for Elvis for a few years.Larry King: Did you go to the funeral?Linda Thompson: Oh, I felt -- oddly enough, Larry, every light in my apartment went off. I was the only apartment in my building that had no power. And I lit candles all over the apartment just to pack, just to get ready to go back to Memphis. I went outside, and I said has everybody lost power? No, just your apartment, which I thought was a little strange. And my friends were coming over to console me, and they said, oh, you're lighting candles for Elvis. And I said, well, actually, no, I'm trying to see to pack.
Larry King: What was the funeral like for you?Linda Thompson: Surreal. It was very difficult for me.Larry King: Was Priscilla there?Linda Thompson: Priscilla was there, and his last girlfriend Ginger Alden was there, and his family members were there, and of course Lisa and my family was there and his father. Colonel Parker came. It's kind of crazy. My mother went to the funeral. We were in the third car behind the hearse. We were there all day as the body lay in state. We were there all night. We were with the family. My family is very close to his family. And my mother saw him lying in state. My mother saw him being buried, being put in the mausoleum.Two weeks later my mother said, you know, a lot of people think Elvis is still alive. . I said, Mom. Well, I'm just saying he could have gone off to the Bahamas. I'm saying, that could have been something. . Mom! That's how desperately people wanted to believe that he was still alive. And after all these years, they still want to believe it.Larry King: He was 42. You had to be shocked, even though you knew about the drugs and everything.Linda Thompson: You know, I was shocked, yes. You're never ready, no matter -- even if you have an elderly parent.
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