but there's no one for whom that's more true than mayte garcia, belly dancer turned author who traveledorld by prince's side for years. she was his wife, his muse, his best friend. and now she's drawing back the curtain on their private moments together. here's abc's nick watt. ♪ purple rain purple rain >> reporter: 1984. the year prince smashed into our collective consciousness with the "purple rain" movie, album, that motorcycle, the heels, and otherworldly aura. >> i don't know any other man that can wear eyeliner and wear heels and be a cool dude. it's not going to happen again. >> reporter: partners in life and music together, mayte garcia and prince made the video for the morning papers here in l.a.'s griffith park. >> i'm honored to have known him. and shared what we did together. >> reporter: now nearly a year after prince died of an unintentional overdose, mayte reveals her side of their story in her new memoir "the most beautiful: my life with prince." >> talk about him being not particularly lucid, perhaps aspirin overdose. there were signs there? >> there were signs. >> repo

your good going. >>> and we are back now with >>> and we are back now with prince's first wife, mayte garcial overdose, but now mayte is opening up about life with the legend in her new memoir, "the most beautiful: my life with prince." and she and prince were together for ten years and he wrote this song about her. ♪ the most beautiful girl in the world ♪ ♪ could you be ♪ plain to see >> prince calling her or you the most beautiful girl in the world. welcome, mayte. >> thank you. >> this is one of many songs that he wrote about you. >> yeah. >> i know that you could have talked about this a long time ago. i'm pretty sure there were a lot of offers for you to tell your story about your relationship with prince, but why now? >> this is kind of for me an honor to him and what we had. it's a beautiful story, and i just wanted -- i know, you know, such a tragic loss and it happened so sudden that i wanted also before a lot of other people had their story, i wanted to share something as intimate and loving, so -- >> it's really a love story between you two, your relationship, how it started, just