2024-10-09 00:04:05
Elvis’ daughter <a href="http://www.time.news/elvis-presleys-granddaughter-quickly-blocks-sale-of-graceland/" title="Elvis Presley's Granddaughter Quickly Blocks Sale of 'Graceland'”>Lisa Marie Presley died in 2023 at just 54 years old. Her autobiography has now been published, in which she also addresses the grief after the death of her son.
In January 2023, Lisa Marie Presley died of cardiac arrest following weight-loss surgery. The only child of music icon Elvis Presley was in the middle of working on an autobiography. Around a year and a half after her death, Lisa Marie Presley’s memoirs have now been published posthumously. Her daughter, the actress Riley Keough, completed “From Here to the Great Unknown – From Here into the Unknown. Memories” using her mother’s tape recordings, as Penguin Publishing announced.
About a month before her unexpected death, her mother asked her if she wanted to write the book with her, writes Keough in the foreword. The story is now told alternately from the perspective of Presley and her daughter, marked by different fonts. About her childhood, the death of her famous father Elvis, her long-term drug and alcohol addiction and her marriage to Michael Jackson.
Her worst loss as a mother is also discussed: in 2020, her son Benjamin took his own life at the age of 27. Presley grieved in a very specific way, as she reveals in the memoir. After his death, she kept her son’s body on dry ice in a suitably cooled room in her house for two months.
“I got so used to him, took care of him and kept him there. I think the idea of having my son with me like that would scare the hell out of anyone else. But not me,” she writes Elvis’ daughter. “I felt so lucky that there was a way I could still mother him, delay it a little bit until it was okay for me to put him to rest.”
The family finally held a memorial service for Benjamin in Malibu, and he was buried in Graceland with his grandfather Elvis. The death of her son broke her mother’s heart, writes Keough. Lisa Marie Presley also died around three years later.