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Priscilla Presley’s Son Opens Up About Drug Addiction

‘BUCKLED DOWN’

The 35-year-old musician said he spent a month detoxing at his mother’s home in 2020.

Actress Priscilla Presley and son Navarone Garibaldi attend the Dream Foundation's 11th Annual Celebration of Dreams at Bacara Resport and Spa on November 16, 2012 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, the 35-year-old son of Elvis Presley’s widow Priscilla Presley, has taken a rare step back into the spotlight in an interview with People, revealing intimate details about his fentanyl addiction. “I was under the impression I was doing heroin, but then it’d turn out to be fentanyl,” the Them Guns musician said. “That was a whole different beast. I became so addicted that I’d need it every 45 minutes.” Garcia, who said he’d struggled with drugs since his teens, quit drugs in 2020 during a month-long detox at Priscilla’s home. It was all part of a mission to visit Switzerland, where his girlfriend was living at the time. The pair have since married. “When COVID happened, I wanted to go there and see her for more than three or four days. I didn't want to have to bring a pound of fentanyl with me anywhere I went,” he told the outlet. “I buckled down and said, ‘Let’s see how bad this can get.’”

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