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Priscilla Presley's son, Navarone Garcia, credits his mother for helping him conquer his conflict pinch constituent abuse.
Garcia – whom Elvis Presley's widow welcomed pinch machine technologist Marco Garibaldi successful 1987 – precocious opened up to Entertainment Tonight astir his decades-long supplier problem and really he is now connected nan mend.
Garcia, 37, said to nan outlet while touring pinch Michael DeLeon, nan laminitis of Steered Straight. According to their website, they are nan apical schoolhouse pedagogue internationally for vaping and fentanyl awareness.
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Priscilla Presley's son, Navarone Garcia, credits his mom for helping him flooded his constituent maltreatment struggles. (Getty Images)
He utilized narcotics successful precocious school, which yet manifested into a horrific dependency connected heroin, which he utilized up to "40 times a day." After he entered rehab successful 2015, a supplier trial confirmed that astir of nan clip he thought he was utilizing heroin, he was really utilizing fentanyl.
"That's a batch connected nan assemblage to handle, and it became intolerable and unsustainable," he admitted. "I would effort to support it from her, you know, what I was going through, but aft a week of withdrawals unsocial I'd [call and say], 'Mom, I'm a week into it, but I sewage to travel to your house, and I'm going to beryllium location for different 2 weeks,' and she says, 'OK. You request immoderate soup?'"
Navarone Garcia shared that his mother helped him "crawl" to nan bath while overcoming his addiction to drugs. (Getty Images)
He added, "I would request thief crawling to nan bath ... she would beryllium assisting. She was astonishing nan full way."
Garcia explained that he and his half-sister, Lisa Marie Presley, some utilized narcotics astir nan aforesaid time, but ne'er together.
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"It's conscionable funny because [Lisa Marie] and I, you know, had been struggling sometimes pinch nan aforesaid point astatine nan aforesaid time," Garcia told nan outlet. "It was ne'er for illustration we ever utilized together -- we'd ever do everything abstracted -- but not moreover recognize that we were some struggling pinch nan aforesaid point astatine nan aforesaid time."
Lisa Marie Presley, nan only kid of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died connected January 12 astatine nan property of 54. (Joe Scarnici)
The precocious Lisa Marie opened up astir her struggle pinch constituent maltreatment successful 2019's "United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation successful Pain." She elaborate that she had go became addicted to opioids aft nan commencement of her twins successful 2008.
On January 12, 2023, Lisa Marie died astatine her location successful California. The only kid of Elvis and Priscilla was 54.
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Garcia attended Lisa Marie's public memorial service, and he told Entertainment Tonight, "Somebody sent maine a image from nan entity successful Alabama that time ... and it virtually looked for illustration location was an angel that has my sister's look made retired of nan clouds."
Lisa Marie Presley opened up astir her addiction to opioids successful 2019. (Jeffrey Mayer via Getty Images)
He called nan representation "remarkable."
Garcia has been successful betterment for nan past fewer years and besides credits his band, Them Guns, for keeping him beardown and committed to a drug-free life. He told nan outlet that his mother is simply a instrumentality of his band's music.
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"She likes it. You cognize she's utilized to nan best, truthful ..." he said pinch a laugh.
Janelle Ash is an intermezo writer for Fox News Digital.
