I told her, 'Mama, if you're going to feel that way, you better not come along to my shows because that stuff is going to keep on happening…' 'Shucks, they were only tearing at my clothes. 'She was afraid they were hurting me,' he told an interviewer in 1956, as reported in Elaine Dundy's book Elvis and Gladys. Presley knew it had upset Gladys but didn't see how he could protect her. Someone had even stripped him of his socks and belt. The police eventually rescued him from on top of a shower – his shirt and coat torn apart. On, on a night now referred to as the first Presley riot, the 20-year-old had just finished a show in Jacksonville, Florida, when he was ambushed by hundreds of screaming fans, who pushed into his dressing room and cornered him. Presley himself acknowledged the impact that his fame was having on his mother. Preseley with his mother Gladys, at the family home in Memphis, 1956 Although not named, a girlfriend very like Hearn is depicted by Luhrmann in the early part of the movie. Now 85, Hearn spoke exclusively to YOU prior to the release of director Baz Luhrmann's eagerly anticipated film Elvis, which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival and is widely tipped to deliver an Oscar nomination for its star Austin Butler. When we started driving home, she looked at me and said, 'I think Elvis was saying goodbye.' We didn't half cry on the way home. I said, 'Actually, honey, I'm just not having a good time.' He looked so sad and he said, 'Neither am I.' He knew my mother very well, and when she arrived, he had her get out of the car and he just hugged and hugged her. 'I slipped out to call my mother to pick me up and he followed me and asked why I was leaving. It wasn't long before the mild-mannered but straight-talking Southern girl had had her fill of the sycophantic fawning. When Hearn arrived at Graceland that night her ex-boyfriend was already besieged by groupies and hangers-on who laughed at everything he said. They had become an item just as his fame started to skyrocket in 1956, when she was 19 and he was 21, and the relationship lasted about a year. Several years after the death of Elvis Presley's mother Gladys, his ex-girlfriend Barbara Hearn was invited to spend the evening with him at his Memphis mansion Graceland.
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