Lisa Marie Presley thought her life was “completely over” after Elvis Presley died when she was 9 years old.

• Lisa Marie Presley wrote about how her father Elvis Presley’s death affected her in her posthumous memoir.

• “My life as I knew it was completely over,” he said.

• As an adult, Lisa Marie had an opioid addiction and sought solace in Elvis’ room at Graceland.

Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her posthumous memoir that she struggled after Elvis Presley died when she was 9 years old.

“My life as I knew it was completely over,” Lisa Marie wrote in her recently published memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown. The book was completed by his daughter, Riley Keoughafter Lisa Marie’s death in 2023.

In her book, Lisa Marie shared heartfelt and loving memories of her legendary father. After Elvis and Priscilla Presley separated when Lisa Marie was 4, she remained close to her father.

“I knew how much he adored me, how much he loved me,” Lisa Marie said. “I knew he knew I hated, hated, hated leaving him.”

Lisa Marie said she was “always worried” about Elvis dying.

“It’s your biggest childhood fear: when you love someone, you don’t want to lose them,” he said. “It’s fucking terrifying, and it tortures you. Most kids have that concern.”

Elvis died at the age of 42 at Graceland in 1977.

After being found on his bathroom floor, he was rushed to hospital. Lisa Marie said she was “furious” when he was pronounced dead.

“I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “Anger, extreme anger, was my first response; grief came next. I don’t really know why, except that I was angry at the universe that this could happen.”

Keough said she didn’t think her mother ever processed Elvis’ death until the last year she was alive.

“But I certainly knew I was heartbroken all my life,” Keough wrote.

Riley Keogh recalled in the memoir how her mother looked to the memory of Elvis for comfort in difficult times.

Lisa Marie said in her memoir that twice a year after Elvis died, she had vivid dreams, which she referred to as visitations, of her father. She said the dreams stopped when her son Benjamin Keough was born in 1992. But later in life, Lisa Marie would seek solace in her father’s memory in a different way.

In the book, Lisa Marie recalled becoming addicted to opioids in her 40s, after the birth of her twin daughters Finley and Harper. At one point, he said, his addiction “rose to 80 pills a day.”

“For a couple of years, it was recreational, and then it wasn’t,” Lisa Marie wrote. “It was an absolute matter of addiction, of withdrawal to the big leagues.”

“I just wanted to check,” he said. “It was too painful to be sober.”

According to Keough, Lisa Marie regularly traveled to her childhood home to find comfort.

“When I lived in Nashville, in the depths of her addiction, my mother would often drive the two hundred miles southwest to Graceland to sleep in her father’s bed,” Keough wrote in the memoir. “It seemed like the only place he found solace.”

Keough said she and her siblings were often brought along on the trip, and they would all sleep in Elvis’ room.

“I would like this to be a magical time in a magical family place,” Keough said. “But the truth was she was in the house desperate to feel protected, desperate to connect with her father. She would have to be lying on his bed, lying on the floor, anything to feel a little bit of comfort.” .

Lisa Marie’s health continued to deteriorate and she died in January 2023 at the age of 54. The cause of death was a small bowel obstruction from a previous surgery. She was buried at Graceland, next to her son Benjamin, who committed suicide in 2020, and in front of Elvis.

Since its release on Tuesday, “From Here to the Great Unknown” has already become an Amazon bestseller and is Oprah Winfrey’s latest selection for her book club. The memoir, which had been in the works for years before Lisa Marie’s death, sold for $3 million to $4 million.

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