Also in Childbride ist das auch so beschrieben, dass das Ganze vielmehr von Cillas Eltern ausging als von ihr. Ihre Mutter war begeister darüber, dass Elvis sich für ihre Tochter interessierte und wollte unbedingt, dass sie zurück nach
Graceland geht und dort mit ihm lebt.
Cilla hatte in Deutschland einen Freund ,Jamie,der ihr wohl viel bedeutet haben muss, sie wollte nicht gehen.
"This was the contrapuntal opposite of the Priscilla - and -Elvis-legend, where Priscilla described herself as obsesissively driven to move into
graceland that january . When she came back to germany she told a close friend "she was afraid that they were going to make her go back and stay all the time." The myth was that
Cilla confided first in her mother and gradually revealed Elvis' invitation to her father - supposedly starving herself,withdrawing, cutting classes.,ailing in school and threatening to run away in order to coerce her parents into allowing her to rejoin Elvis.
Yet, the dean of girls at H.H Arnold, Jackie Momberg, had no record of absences for Priscilla during that spring semester and her classmates did not recall her missing anything. She was with Jamie, by their recollection, and for the first time in her high-school-life Priscilla was actually participating in school activities - because Jamie did. "She was never rebellious" insisted her friend from that year Judy Comstock. Another confident reported that "There was never any convincing" That isn't true and part of the manufactured (story). The truth, according to Jamie and the few others who knew Priscilla well, was that Priscilla's parents were concerned that she was getting too close to Jamie and they were pressuring
Cilla to move to
Graceland to sustain the romance with Elvis. "I'm sure - positive - in retrospect that was the case," Jamie affirmed. " She kind of got caught up in a very enthusiastic mom who had great plans for her, and that's how she ended up there (in
Graceland)"
Cilla told Jamie that she did not want to go to Memphis and feared she might be making the worst mistake of her live.... .
(Childbride, S176 ff)