13.SWEET SORROW: Elvis and Priscilla leave Santa Monica Superior Court together following their divorce in October 1973. Lisa Marie's birth changed Elvis and Priscilla's relationship. "Until the last six weeks (of my pregnancy), we had made love passionately," she wrote, according to PEOPLE in August 1997. But after that, he withdrew because "he had never been able to make love to a woman who'd had a child." That, combined with Elvis's extramarital relationships, drug use and generally extreme lifestyle led to the couple's separation in 1972. Gospel singer J.D. Sumner, a longtime friend of Elvis's, spoke with him about Priscilla in 1973 while the two were on tour. "He asked me where he went wrong," Sumner told PEOPLE in August 1987. "I told him the only thing a woman has got is her home, and Priscilla didn't even have that. Elvis had 20 so-called bodyguards in the house at all times. She couldn't walk out of the bedroom with any comfort on account of a bunch of men sitting around." Still, Elvis and Priscilla remained close for the rest of his life. "We'd still hold hands," Priscilla told LIFE in December 1988. "We didn't hate each other; we respected each other. To Elvis, I was like this kid he had raised." Lisa Marie also felt the bond between her parents. "My mom and dad remained close even after the divorce when I was 5," she told LIFE. "They'd come to school for parents' day. They'd talk a lot on the phone. I never felt the pressure of a divorce." "He was and remains the greatest influence in my life," Priscilla wrote in her 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me.