VIDEO – FAMILY DESPAIR –
May 1, 2024 – “It started with weed in high school and, by the time I was 16, 17, I had kinda tried everything,” Navarone tells ET’s Kevin Frazier about his journey into addiction. “I don’t know if you can say [I became a] casual user of heroin, but I didn’t have a problem with it until 2015. All of a sudden I just noticed a difference.” Navarone Garcia is opening up about his struggles with drug addiction and how he’s sharing his story to help the younger generation with the aid of Michael DeLeon, founder of Steered Straight Inc. Navarone is the only son of Priscilla Presley, who welcomed the 37-year-old musician with her ex, producer Marco Garibaldi, a decade after her 1973 divorce from Elvis Presley. Navarone’s older half-sister and Priscilla’s first child, her daughter Lisa Marie Presley with Elvis, died last January at age 54.
As he grew up, Navarone tried his best to stay out of the spotlight. Then, in his teenage years, Navarone began using heroin and fentanyl. The musician recalls experiencing “insane withdrawals” after becoming used to using “two or three times a day.”
“It [got to] where I was using 40 times a day,” he says. “That’s a lot on the body to handle and it became intolerable and unsustainable. I actually checked myself into a rehab and the first thing they do when you go to rehab is drug test you. I said, ‘I just shot up in the bathroom and I’m gonna be positive for cocaine and heroin,’ and they came back and said, ‘You actually tested negative for heroin.’”
