Priscilla Presley reveals why she left Elvis

You would have thought that being married to Elvis Presley would be like a dream come true, but as Elvis' ex wife Priscilla has revealed, it wasn't all glitz and glamour behind closed doors.

In a recent interview, Priscilla has said that the pair "didn't go out" and "truly lived in a bubble".

Priscilla started dating Elvis at age 14 and married him at 21, though he was 10 years her senior.

"I just kind of followed what he did. You lived his life," she said. 

Not even alone with Elvis could she be entirely herself. "He taught me, even in having a relationship, about always having a mystique — never revealing everything," she said, per Yahoo.

An astonishing admittance came when she said that not once during six years of marriage did Elvis see her without makeup on.

"He never wanted to see me getting dressed. He wanted to see the result of getting dressed," she said, as quoted by Country Living.

Because of the relationship she didn't experience her teenage years as "as a normal girl." Only when she began attending a dance class did she realize how unusual their relationship was, said Presley.

This lead her to divorcing Elvis in 1973.

"I left because … I needed to find out what the world was like," she said. "I didn't really know who I was."