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Elvis Presley had a rough final few years alive. The King of Rock and Roll weighed approximately 25 stone and had reportedly spent months gorging on cheeseburgers in his room.
On top of that, he rarely left his room – or even his house – and needed a “full-time nurse” in 1975.
When he was found dead on August 16, 1977, his body was in a dire state, mostly thanks to the prescription drugs he had been ingesting for several months.
The Jailhouse Rock singer had been prescribed almost “9,000 pills, vials and injections” during this time as a way for him to combat his declining health and physical state.
Elvis was eventually found on the bathroom floor in his 14-acre estate, Graceland, by Ginger Alden, his fiancée at the time.
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As if finding your husband-to-be dead on the floor wasn’t traumatic enough, Ginger witnessed Elvis’ body in a gruesome state.
Alana Nash wrote in her Elvis biography (Baby Let’s Play House) that the King had almost torn through his own tongue as he fell to the ground.
“His swollen face was buried in the red shag carpet,” she wrote. “His tongue, nearly bitten in half, protruding from clinched teeth. His beautiful skin now mottled purple-black.”
Elvis reportedly vomited on the bathroom floor as he strained on the toilet before crawling a few feet and enduring some violent death throes. Before long, he stopped breathing.
Alana wrote: “If Elvis had called out, Ginger likely would not have heard him,” referencing the fact that Ginger was just next door when the King was dying.
Ginger, who was just 21-years-old at the time, has since recalled the disturbing experience in her own memoir, Elvis and Ginger.
Ginger wrote that she discovered Elvis on the ground with his hands at his side and his palms facing the sky.
“It was clear that, from the moment he landed on the floor, Elvis hadn’t moved,” she explained.
“I gently turned his face toward me. A hint of air expelled from his nose. The tip of his tongue was clenched between his teeth and his face was blotchy. I gently raised one eyelid. His eye was staring straight ahead and blood red.”
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