Linda Thompson, who lived with Elvis Presley and was married to Bruce Jenner, has kept the details of her high-profile relationships private over the years.
But Thompson has learned that if you’re in the public eye and you keep quiet, others will write their version of what happened. Case in point: the now fabled story about Elvis shooting his television.
Thompson says she has heard others say, “I was there when he shot the TV set out and Robert Goulet was singing,” but she was alone with Presley in his bedroom when it happened.
She writes about Elvis, Jenner and her ex-husband, music producer David Foster, in her new book, A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between (Dey Street Books).
“For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices