Los Angeles - Michael Jackson's ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley has revealed details about their marriage.
Appearing on Oprah Winfrey's show, she said that her marriage to Jackson from 1994-96 was real, though she was unsure whether Jackson ever loved her.
When Winfrey asked if she felt that Jackson had used her, the daughter of late pop superstar Elvis Presley replied, "All signs point to 'yes' on that. I can't answer for him."
"Do you think that he loved you as much as he could?" the talk-show host asked.
"Yes, as much as he was capable of loving somebody," Presley replied. (They famously opened the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards by exchanging a long kiss.)
In a PrimeTime Live interview with the couple in 1995, Presley told ABC's Diane Sawyer that anyone who questioned their relationship could "Eat it!"
Presley claimed she was uncomfortable talking about Jackson, at one point exclaiming: "This seat is hot!"
The 37-year-old singer made similar comments about her former husband while promoting her 2003 debut album, describing the relationship to The Associated Press as more "toxic" than her other relationships.
Then, she told the AP: "I don't want to bash him. I don't hate him, I don't have any of that going on."
Jackson, 46, is accused of 10 counts of molesting the then-13- year-old cancer survivor in 2003, plying him with alcohol and holding the family against their will at Neverland until they made a video in support of him.
PRESLEY FACES TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT JACKSON ON 'OPRAH'
Oprah Winfrey had rocker Lisa Marie Presley recoiling in shock on her daytime talk show Monday when she asked if she'd ever had sex with Michael Jackson.
The talk show titan asked the question Presley has never answered when Winfrey posed, "Was it a consummated marriage?" referring to her guest's odd pairing with the King of Pop.
A stunned Presley shot back, "Oh my god, Oprah!" as audience members drew a deep breath, leading Winfrey to joke, "You all know damn well you wanna know."
Presley then answered the question with a simple, "Yep," adding, "To me, yes, it was [real]."
But the shock wasn't over there -- the singer's mother Priscilla Presley, who joined her for the candid interview, stated, "I do think there was an agenda there ... because he wanted children and he wanted her children."
The rocker shot her mother a furious look, and said, "Mother, what are you doing right now?"
Previously on the show, Priscilla told Oprah that she had always struggled with her daughter's romance with the King of Pop, which led to a 1994 wedding ceremony she wasn't invited to.
She said, "There's something very calculating and manipulative about how he does things ... I mean there's Graceland and there's Neverland -- there's a whole thread that goes into what he does."
"I want to believe he did [love her] because I would hate to believe that it was only for one thing, whether it be to maintain his popularity or to be associated somehow to her and her father. It's just hard for me to believe that people do that."
the singer's mother Priscilla Presley, who joined her for the candid interview, stated, "I do think there was an agenda there ... because he wanted children and he wanted her children."
I'd never really thought of that before, you'd kind of have to assume that their kids would've been pretty talented musically.
You could take that statement another way as well. He WANTED her kids. She does have a son doesn't she? You never know with Michael.
What is up with Pricilla and the work on her face? She was a very beautiful woman. I would bet that she would look better with wrinkles than she does like this.
This is what her ex-husband Danny said about his kids being with MJ back in 1998.
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Feb.10, 1998
LISA MARIE PRESLEY has said goodbye to MICHAEL JACKSON once and for all and fallen back into the arms of first husband and father of her children DANNY KEOUGH. Keough was horrified when he saw recent holiday snaps of their five-year-old son BEN sitting on Jackson's lap. Keough warned Lisa Marie he would take court action for custody of the kids if they came into contact with Jackson again. So Lisa Marie has promised Keough she will keep her distance from Jackson, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 1996.
She does have a son doesn't she? You never know with Michael.