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Elvis killed by constipation, says former doctor

By | Published on Friday 7 May 2010

Elvis Presley’s former doctor, Dr George ‘Nick’ Nichopoulos, says in a new book that he believes the singer was actually killed by chronic constipation. In ‘The King And Dr Nick’, the doc says that, while he knew Presley suffered from constipation, he did not know the full extend of the condition until after an autopsy was conducted.

Nichopoulos told Fox: “The constipation upset him quite a bit because Elvis thought that he could handle almost anything, he thought he was really a man’s man and he thought that this was a sign of weakness and he wasn’t going to be weak. And it’s not the kind of thing you table talk. Back in the 60s and 70s you didn’t talk about constipation much, you didn’t hear people complaining about it, or saying what they did or how much trouble they had with it”.

He added that Elvis has been offered a colostomy (removal of part of the colon), but had refused. He continued: “He would get embarrassed, he’d have accidents onstage. He’d have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation. So if they had done the colostomy then, he’d probably still be here. But it wasn’t acceptable treatment at that time. Now the treatment is short”.

He also explained that The King’s colon was found to be more than twice the size, both in width and length, of the average person’s.



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