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Cybill Shepherd Spills the Tea on Her Brief Fling with Elvis: “A Little Bit Too Close to God”
Actress and singer Cybill Shepherd is giving fans a rare peek behind the velvet curtains of her short-lived romance with the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. During her “An Evening with Cybill Shepherd: Music, Conversation & Stories” event on Friday, October 17th, the 75-year-old star opened up about what Elvis was really like when the cameras weren’t rolling.
Shepherd, introducing her song “Graceland (Revisited),” co-written with former musical director Tom Adams, described Presley as a “great guy.” However, she added a curious detail, suggesting he seemed “just a little bit too close to God or somebody.” After her performance, she simply and emphatically stated, “Elvis was really cool though.”
Their brief liaison happened in the 1970s, after Elvis’s split from Priscilla Presley. And it seems Shepherd isn’t shy about sharing the more intimate details. Back in September 2024, she revealed to Palm Springs Life an unexpected tidbit about the music legend: “he’d never gone down on a woman before.”
Shepherd also recounted a rather unsettling encounter with Presley in Las Vegas. She recalled him approaching her with a handful of pills, saying, “I’ve already taken mine.
These are for you.” Shepherd, wisely, declined, stating, “I don’t need them.
Thank you very much.”
The incident prompted her to make a quick exit. “I left very shortly after that and didn’t stay the night,” she explained. She even left a piece of jewelry behind, a decision she now “kind of regret[s],” but emphasized, “I needed to get out of there.”
The news of her tryst eventually reached her then-partner, Peter Bogdanovich, who, according to Shepherd, “forgave me because it was Elvis.” She admitted to being “attracted to him, and his legend was part of him. You can’t separate the two, except for the drugs he gave me.”
Elvis Presley passed away in August 1977 at the age of 42.