Priscilla Presley’s son, Navarone Garcia, was spending $3,000 a month on fentanyl — before his mother helped save him from becoming the latest member of her famous family to die while battling addiction.
The 36-year-old frontman of rock band Them Guns told the Sun he started trying heroin at 17 — and by 29 was hooked on fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger.
“I don’t know how this happened but all heroin in the United States is starting to contain fentanyl. So I didn’t realize I was doing fentanyl,” said the rocker, whose half-sister, Lisa Marie Presley, died a year ago after a long battle with substance abuse.
“So suddenly I was addicted to fentanyl.”
Unlike heroin, where users go hours between hits, “with fentanyl you have to do it every 45 minutes or you start getting sick,” Garcia said.
“So it got to a very expensive level.
Priscilla Presley’s son Navarone Garcia was spending $3,000 a month on fentanyl before his mother rescued him. Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock
“I spend $3,000 a month on fentanyl. It’s unbearable,” he said.
“I do not recommend it to anyone because it is very deadly. If you don’t have any tolerance, you will die the first time you do it. So it’s a scary, scary thing.”
Garcia believes the synthetic opioid would have killed him if it weren’t for his mother — who was given various drugs by Elvis Presley during their marriage but managed to avoid addiction.
Garcia first tried heroin at age 17 before becoming addicted to fentanyl at age 29. Navarone Garcia / Instagram
“I went to my mother’s house for about three weeks to a month to recover from my problems,” said Garcia, whose father, Brazilian film producer Marco Garibaldi, was with Priscilla for 21 years.
“I’m not well. I am useless. He helps me do everything.”
Garcia’s half-sister, Lisa Marie Presley, went to rehab five times to try and kick her addictions to cocaine and opioids before her death last January. The 54-year-old suffered a heart attack following weight loss surgery.
The 36-year-old says his mother saved him from an expensive and dangerous addiction. Navarone Garcia / Instagram
His son Benjamin also tried rehab to solve his drug and alcohol problems before he died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
Most notably, Lisa Marie’s father, Elvis, died in 1977 at the age of 42 with 14 drugs in his system.
The news comes months after the release of Sofia Coppola’s latest film “Priscilla,” which has shed new light on Priscilla and Elvis’ relationship.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
