Elvis Presley’s secret personal pledge with his cousin and why The King made it with him
Elvis Presley had his Memphis Mafia around him as his inner circle, but the star was particularly close to his cousin on his mother’s side when it came to secrets. Billy Smith grew up with The King and knew him before he was famous. And it was in 1967 that Elvis suggested they make a personal pledge between the two of them.
Billy remembers making the pledge with Elvis Presley not long after The King had suffered a concussion, after slipping in the bathtub and hitting his head.
Both took place at The King’s Los Angeles home of 10550 Rocca Place in Bel Air.
Speaking on the Memphis Mafia YouTube channel, Billy said: “I was staying in the room with him and there was something he had told about me as a kid.”
As boys, the pair had made a previous pledge of confidentiality concerning a mystery incident they were involved in that Elvis later told someone else.
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