His daughter, actress Riley Keough, wrote the book “From Here to the Great Unknown.” “Memories” was completed using tape recordings made by his mother, Penguin Publishers reported. Presley died in early 2023 at the age of 54 as a result of weight loss surgery.
A month before her unexpected death, her mother asked her if she would like to write the book with her, Keefe writes in the foreword. The book alternately tells the story from the points of view of Presley and Keefe, now marked by different fonts. Keefe writes that her mother was “a kind of America’s princess” — “she didn’t want to be.”
“He is God to me. A chosen one.”
It begins with the early years of Presley’s life, most of which he spent with his famous father at Graceland Estates in Memphis, Tennessee. “He is God to me. Even a chosen child, she feared him to death. “I knew something tragic was going to happen.”
When Elvis Presley died in 1977 at the age of 42, his daughter was nine years old – and saw it all first hand. His lifeless body carries her out of the house. “I didn’t see his face, but I saw his head, his body, his pajamas, his socks at the bottom of the stretcher.”
Four marriages failed
At this point, Lisa Marie Presley was already living in Los Angeles with her mother, Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie Presley writes that her mother’s new boyfriend later sexually assaulted her. She attends multiple schools, takes drugs and alcohol at an early age, is a temporary member of Scientology, and at age 20, marries musician Danny Q, with whom she has daughter Riley in 1989 and son Benjamin in 1992.
The marriage failed in 1994 and Presley married the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson a few weeks after the divorce. “I was really, really happy. “I’ve never been happier since,” Presley writes. “We wanted to be alone, normal, anonymous. I did his laundry, we ran errands and went shopping together, and the two were “the perfect married couple,” writes daughter Keefe. “In the morning they took me to school like a normal family.”
Riley Keough (Links) and Lisa Marie Presley 2017
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But in 1996 this marriage also broke up. After that, Presley had two more failed marriages, one of which was to Hollywood star Nicolas Cage. In 2008, she had twin daughters with musician Michael Lockwood. She continues a singing career and releases three studio albums. Presley was able to live without drugs for a few years, but addiction caught up with her again. Sometimes he took as many as 80 pills a day, he writes. Presley often spends time with her children at Graceland, and later they all sleep together in Elvis’ former bed.
In 2020, Presley’s son Benjamin committed suicide. After his death, Elvis’ daughter said she kept her son’s body in a suitably air-conditioned room in her home for two months. “I think any person would pee their pants in fear at the thought of having their son with them. But not me,” the book says. .”
The death of son Benjamin broke Presley’s heart
Her son’s death broke her mother’s heart, Keefe writes. About three years later, Lisa Marie Presley herself died in the book, her husband Ben Smith-Peterson quoting from her eulogy read at the memorial service: “Thank you for showing me that love is the only thing that matters in life. “
