Riley Keough made sure her mother’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, was completed, giving more insight into Lisa Marie Presley’s life.
Lisa Maria Presley was unable to complete her memoir, which compiled the highs and lows of a full life as Elvis Presley’s daughter. Even so, your daughter Riley Keough ensure it was accomplished and shared with the world.
Presley – who died at age 54 in January 2023 – was candid about her miscarriage, losing her virginity, arresting her husband and more in her posthumous memoir, From here to the beautiful unknown.
VeryFab compiled the five biggest takeaways from Presley’s memoir here.
1. Your miscarriage
In the posthumous memoir, Presley opened up about the first time she became pregnant by her then-boyfriend Danny Keough, who she ended up marrying.
“The first time I got pregnant, I didn’t even realize it,” wrote Lisa Marie in her memoir, for AND! Information. “For the first four months we dated, I ended up in the emergency room in horrible pain and they rushed me into surgery.” At the time, the singer stated that doctors thought she had appendix problems, but after surgery she was informed that it was an ectopic pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“I ended up having an abortion,” she wrote. “And it was the stupidest thing I ever did in my entire life. I was devastated.”
She revealed that she “never got pregnant by someone else”, despite having been “equally sloppy” by not using contraceptives. The “Shine” singer recalled that after the lawsuit she and Danny “were destroyed and not long after that we broke up and broke up. I couldn’t live with myself.”
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Presley also wrote about being “so upset” with herself that she “planned” and “planned” to get pregnant again.
“I pinpointed exactly when I was ovulating,” she wrote. One night, when she went to visit Danny, she didn’t inform him that she hoped to conceive a child.
“I didn’t really care what he thought anymore,” she explained. “I didn’t care if he wanted to be a part of it or not. I felt like I needed to redeem myself, make peace, because I still couldn’t think that I had had an abortion. I assumed, ‘I’m going to keep this little one. There’s a little one I need to have.’”
“I would be talking to the lost child, saying, ‘I’m so sorry, I can’t believe I did this. Please forgive me and stay with me until I get pregnant again,’” she wrote, via Page six.
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2. Involuntarily arresting Danny Keough
Two weeks after spending the night with Danny, she discovered she was pregnant and the two were married soon after.
“Danny knew he needed to marry me,” she wrote. Presley was pregnant with her first child, Riley, who was born in May 1989, at the time.
She added that she “arrested him” – writing: “I actually didn’t mean to, but I wanted to,” for Page six.
Along with Riley, the couple welcomed their son Benjamin Keough in October 1992, before their divorce in 1994. Their son died by suicide in 2020.
Riley, now 35, said in September that Lisa Marie died of a “damaged coronary heart” after his son’s absence.
The late Presley was also the mother of her twin daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood, now 16, whom she shared with her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood. She was also previously married to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996 and Nicolas Cage from 2002 to 2004.
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3. Giving up virginity
Presley lost her virginity at age 14 to a 23-year-old man she did not mention in the memoir.
She met him in the Bahamas and he had a “small role” in a film that her mother, Priscilla Presley, was in.
“I felt really bad,” she recalled, for Us weekly. The person, who was 9 years older than her, was “understandably, terribly apprehensive” about starting a relationship with Presley. However, she remembers being “madly in love” and her mother tried to end the relationship, despite meeting Elvis Presley at age 14 as well.
“I was replaying her life in a bizarre way,” Presley recalled.
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“But she and my dad waited until she was 18 to have sex. I was 14 when I lost my virginity to this man,” she wrote.. The pair dated for over two years, with Presley saying the relationship ended due to her friends “secretly” photographing them together.
“They offered the story and paid for the photos. He didn’t care about me,” she wrote. “Our relationship was illegal and the promotion of these photos exposed it.”
When she was faced with the “big betrayal,” she “swallowed 20 Valium” but said she “wasn’t that serious” in her “suicide attempt” as she made sure “anyone” saw her do it. Later in the book, she revealed that she later reconnected with the older man.
“At that time, I met and fell in love with a man named Danny Keough,” she added.
4. Maintaining the child’s physique
When deciding on his son’s final resting place, Presley kept his body preserved in a casket in dry ice during the two months of his residence.
Her pain was so intense, but she said she found solace in “taking care of him and keeping him there. I think it might scare anyone else to have their child there like that. But not me. I felt so lucky that there was a way I could still parent him, put it off a little longer so I could be okay with laying him to rest.” Yahoo Leisure.
She also invited a tattoo artist to see Benjamin so she could get a reproduction of his tattoos in order to get matching ink for herself. In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey Riley shared that she also honored Benjamin by getting tattoos that matched his.
Since he had his sister’s name written on his collarbone and his mother’s name on his hand, as a tribute, both women had Benjamin’s name inscribed in the specific areas — which meant that the tattoo artist needed to examine his preserved body to get the “positioning precisely.” correct.
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“He said, OK, do you have any pictures?” Riley remembered the tattoo artist asking. “And she said, ‘No, but I can show you.’”
Keough insisted that her mother wasn’t “crazy” for letting the tattoo artist examine her late brother’s physique, adding that the moment was very much “a matter of reality.”
THE Daisy Jones and the Six star said the tattoo artist was thankfully “very regular about everything” and acted professionally regardless of the unusual request.
However, Keough was a little uncomfortable, with the film and TV actress telling Winfrey that she “kept quiet” that second out of respect for her mother.
“But they were definitely some of the most absurd moments (of my life),” Keough admitted.
Benjamin ended up resting at Graceland, next to his grandfather, after a funeral in Malibu.
Presley was later buried there as well after his death.
5. Your habit
At age 40, Presley suffered a battle with an enlargement following the cesarean birth of her twins in 2008.
Keough reminded Winfrey that her mother told her she “was taking opiates.”
“’And at first, I took them for pain. Then I would take them to sleep at night. Now it’s like I’m taking advantage of them for fun,’” Riley recalled to Winfrey.
In her memoir, Presley recalled “bulking up the capsules” after she left the Church of Scientology, for TODAY.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I lost my faith and this has been my only sidewalk to walk on, my surrogate family.’ All things are gone – all my friends, all things,” she wrote, via TODAY. “I knew it was over. And I was so devastated that I used medication as a coping mechanism.”
Keough also noted that his mother was “drinking more.”
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“At one point, she came across an article that said cocaine can help people quit opioids, so she started doing cocaine to quit opioids and then opioids to quit cocaine. Her addiction would continue throughout her rehabilitation period based on the premise that she was always in severe, life-threatening withdrawals that no doctor could notice,” Keough wrote, per TODAY.
Presley admitted to taking 80 painkillers a day when he was at his lowest and going in and out of rehab.
Throughout this period of 2016, Presley was involved in a messy divorce from her husband Lockwood, where her belongings were frozen and she fought a long custody battle over the twins.
As a result of her battle with addiction, the court required that she have a court-certified monitor to see the twins, who turned out to be Riley. The twins, Presley, her brother, and her father moved in with Riley to help.
“It seemed like it would have been great to have everyone together. But it felt like the top of things,” Riley wrote, for TODAY. “We could have a wonderful, colorful, lovely, spacious, fun and joyful life – but in that house, it took a turn and became unbearably dark for all of us.”
Riley was pleased with Presley for not relapsing after her son’s death.
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, get help. The Substance Abuse and Psychological Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline (1-800-662-4357) offers confidential, free, 24/7 support for people in poverty.
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