While Priscilla never got to meet Gladys, Elvis often spoke of her suffering to his young paramour.

It was certainly not a typical arrangement, despite how modern audiences might excuse the age-gap courtship as such.

Elvis always had people at his house, and was almost incapable of being alone.

Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla

And he also stressed that Priscilla needed to be untouched by other men while they were apart.

He would know, he insisted, if she had been unfaithful with her body.

But even without overt sex scenes,Priscillashows a young girl being transformed into a famous mans living doll.

There really is no way to avoid calling it grooming, by any definition.

Elvis had to approve every evenings outfit choice.

With her parents all the way in Europe, that rule quickly flew out the window.

Elvis ideas about feminine purity werent only relegated to being against premarital sex.