When you were a father like Elvis, with the money and the means to give your only child anything in the world, where do you even draw the line?
Elvis didn’t seem to draw one at all. As a little girl, Lisa Marie got expensive jewelry. She got a miniature fur coat made just her size. And one day, when she said she’d never seen snow, her father put her on a jet and flew her to Utah so she could see it for the first time.
So the question almost asks itself. Was she spoiled?
Someone put that exact question to Lisa Marie in a 2003 interview, and her answer is the whole reason this story stays with people.
Lisa Marie talking about her dad, in her own words
In this clip she opens up about growing up as Elvis’s daughter and what his music still meant to her.
Before we get to her answer, it helps to know what those years were really like. Lisa Marie remembered going to bed at four or five in the morning right alongside her father. She called him “very mischievous,” and you can tell she loved that about him.
After her parents split up, life got even more unpredictable in the sweetest way. A car would simply show up at her school. Elvis would be on the other end, calling for his little girl to come out and join him on the road. No warning. Just Dad, wanting her with him.
Now, you’d think a childhood like that would turn a kid’s head. Big gifts, late nights, a father who could make almost anything happen with a phone call. Plenty of people assume it did.
But when she was asked straight out whether Elvis spoiled her, Lisa Marie didn’t hesitate. And her answer was about love, not things. She explained exactly how she took every gift her father ever gave her, and it says more about the kind of dad he was than any fur coat ever could.
She also let slip what her mother did every single time Elvis went overboard. Priscilla, it turns out, had a role in all of this too.
Why fans keep coming back to this one
A grown daughter looking back on her famous father is always worth hearing, and Lisa Marie was honest and funny about it. Watch the interview above and you’ll hear her answer the spoiled question in her own voice, plus the line about her mom that still makes people smile.
It’s a warm look at a father and daughter who clearly adored each other.