Elvis Presley’s Bodyguard Opened Up About What Really Went On In The King’s Private Life

When you hear the name Elvis, you can already picture him. Slicked back hair, all black outfit, shaking his hips left to right and back again. But who was the man when the spotlight turned off and he went back to his real life? Well, the King’s former bodyguard claims to have revealed another facet of the rocker’s personality. And it’s a side of the larger-than-life star that few people got to see.

Instant sensation

Elvis Presley was a star unlike anyone the music industry had ever seen. For one thing, his mere presence elicited reactions from the crowd that even beloved crooners like Frank Sinatra had never seen. While Ol’ Blue Eyes’ fans would respectfully cheer and clap, Elvis had his fans screaming at the top of their lungs when they saw him!

If you can't beat 'em...

There was just something about Elvis that made his fans go crazy – even they couldn’t explain it. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette shared quotes from fans who had attended his 1956 show at Robinson Auditorium. Edie Garland Barentine admitted, “I honestly did not know why people were so excited, but I knew I’d better act like I was too, so I studied the girls around me and did my best to imitate the screams with hands to my heart and hair and arms waving the air.”

Ultimate sex symbol

Perhaps the truth was that, to many female fans, Elvis was a sex symbol – a titled which continued throughout the duration of his career. And he did little to dissuade the public from thinking of him as a lothario, either. The King married once, but he had plenty of alleged girlfriends, flings and affairs that kept the world talking.

Insider secrets

And, while that image has come to define Elvis, it’s important to remember that fans only knew his most public side. The people closest to him knew the truth about who he was. Elvis apparently showed it to them. And that’s precisely what happened with his trusted bodyguard, who has claimed that he knows exactly what happened behind closed doors with the King and all of the women in his life.