It’s been 43 years since the legendary rocker Elvis Presley passed away at the age of 42, but a former girlfriend believes that he still “lives on” in “another dimension.”

After his marriage to Priscilla Presley ended in 1973, Presley dated beauty queen Linda Thompson for a few years. In an interview after his death, Thompson said that she believes he’s actually still alive in “another dimension.”

When she met Presley, Thompson was only 22 while he was 37, but they fell in love immediately.

“In a normal relationship, you go to work, you come back, you meet for a few hours, you have dinner, you go to sleep. The next day you’re both off doing your thing,” she said, according to Express.co.uk. “With Elvis it was so intense. It was so 24/7.”

“When I left him, he looked fine,” Thompson said after his death. “… He really had deteriorated a lot. Here’s a man who has everything in the world going for him, and he was the most gorgeous man, I think, physically, who ever lived, Spiritually, he was found, he was good, he was solid.”

She went on to say that she believes that Presley is alive in “another dimension,” noting that some fans thought that he was “off in the Bahamas” instead of truly dead.

“I believe that Elvis lives on,” Thompson said. “Certainly, he lives on even in this world, in our memories. But I think that he is in another dimension. And it’s comforting to me, before I go to sleep at night, to know within my own soul, that wherever Elvis is now, he knows who truly loves him, he knows who had high regard.”

Though Thompson believes that Presley lives on somewhere else, it was his fiancé Ginger Alden who found him dead in his bathroom in August of 1977.

“I slapped him a few times and it was like he breathed once when I turned his head,” Alden said, according to Daily Mail. “I didn’t want to think he was dead. God wouldn’t want to take him so soon.”

Alden said that she called for help, but it was too late to revive him. She added that Presley’s last words to her were, “I’m going into the bathroom to read.”