Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir reveals shocking bombshells, including addictions and more

Lisa Marie Presley listened to her father’s music only in private.

“Sometimes I would walk into my mother’s room and find her sitting on the floor alone, drunk, listening to her father’s music, crying,” her daughter recalls. Riley Keough in From here to the great unknownthe memoir he completed after Lisa Marie’s death in 2023.

From her birth in 1968, Elvis’ only daughter, Lisa Marie, struggled. She recalls the unconditional love she received from Elvis and her premonition of his untimely death.

“I hope my father doesn’t die,” he wrote in a poem in his diary.

Lisa Marie recalled watching Elvis being wheeled into an ambulance after his fatal heart attack in 1977. “My life as I knew it was completely over,” she wrote.

From the age of 11, he was abused by one of his mothers Priscilla Presleythe bride and groom of

Lisa Marie got married at 20 and then left Danny KeoughRiley’s father and son Benjamin, for Michael Jackson, who was a virgin when they met. “I was actually so happy,” she wrote of her marriage. “I’ve never been so happy.”

He married and divorced two more times. After the birth of her daughters Harper and Finley in 2008, Lisa Marie became addicted to painkillers. “It increased to 80 pills a day,” he wrote.

As difficult as it was, nothing could prepare her for Benjamin’s suicidal death in 2020. Unable to let go, Lisa Marie kept her son’s body on dry ice for two months.

“I think it would scare the living (expletives) out of anyone else… But not me,” she wrote. “I felt so lucky that there was a way that I could still be a parent to him, to delay it a little bit longer so that I could be okay with putting him to rest.”

After Lisa Marie’s sudden death from an intestinal obstruction, she was buried next to her son and near her father, Elvis, in the Graceland Memorial Gardens.