The Truth About Elvis Presley's Friendship With Johnny Cash

In 2008, John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, released the biography "Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash." In the book, John addressed speculation that June may have had an affair with Elvis Presley. "Throughout my life, I would see Mom get a mischievous twinkle in her eye whenever she mentioned Elvis Presley," John wrote (via Express). "Her eyes would flash merrily, and she would say, 'You know, son, your father was always jealous of Elvis' ... She even told me once that she sometimes wondered what would have happened if she had fallen in love with Elvis."

Speaking to Express in 2020, John said, "My mother had worked on the road with Elvis when she was younger, so I heard a lot about him growing up." June toured with Presley in the mid-1950s, around the time Presley and Johnny Cash signed to Sun Records, met, and became friends.

"Though Mom always maintained that she never had an affair with Elvis, Carl [Perkins, her first husband] believed differently and perhaps for good reason," John wrote in the biography. "After Carl moved out of their Madison home, Mom would sometimes let Elvis stay at the house to 'rest' after a tour."

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