During their last conversation, as revealed in "Elvis & Ginger," Elvis Presley told Ginger Alden he was going to the bathroom to read as he was restless that night, to which she teasingly told him not to fall asleep in there. Presley, as Alden recounted in her book (via Inside Edition), promised, "OK, I won't," before disappearing into the bathroom. Alden herself fell asleep for several hours, discovering Elvis upon waking up.
"Elvis looked as if his entire body had completely frozen in a seated position while using the toilet and then had fallen forward, in that fixed position, directly in front of it," Alden explained in her memoir. "It was clear that, from the time whatever hit him to the moment he had landed on the floor, Elvis hadn't moved."
The experience was traumatic for Alden; she was alienated by Elvis' inner circle of friends and family. All when she was a 20 year-old woman coping with losing the man she loved. Decades later, Alden did, however, reclaim her story through writing about the relationship. Additionally, she married Ronald Leyser and had one son, details that are often omitted when her name comes up in relation to Elvis.
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