Here’s a sweet story about the late Lisa Marie Presley that comes from the brand new, posthumous release of her memoir.
At a glance:
- Lisa Marie Presley got a matching tattoo with her late son Benjamin Keough after his 2020 suicide, while preserving his body on ice at home for two months.
- Riley Keough shared these details during an Oprah interview promoting Lisa Marie’s posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown.
- The memoir also reveals Lisa Marie’s eerie premonition of her father Elvis Presley’s death and her unique methods of coping with grief.
In a heartfelt and revealing conversation with Oprah Winfrey, Riley Keough opened up about her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s intense grief following the 2020 suicide of her son Benjamin Keough. During the interview, Keough revealed that her mother got a matching tattoo with Benjamin while his body was stored in their home for two months, preserved with dry ice.
Keough, 35, explained to Oprah how her mother’s decision to keep Benjamin’s body close was part of her unique grieving process. While Lisa Marie’s actions may sound shocking, Keough defended her mother’s choices, saying, “She wasn’t crazy. She was just herself.” Lisa Marie’s approach to mourning her son included a matching tattoo on her hand, with the help of a tattoo artist who was brought to the house.
In a moment that Keough described as both surreal and deeply personal, Lisa Marie offered to show the artist Benjamin’s body to help with the tattoo placement, telling him, “My son is here in the back room. I can show you.” Keough, stunned by the situation, stayed quiet, saying that she often found herself managing the chaos that surrounded her mother during moments like these.
Lisa Marie’s posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, also explores her relationship with her famous father, Elvis Presley. In the book, she shares her premonitions of his death, which occurred when she was just nine years old. Riley Keough shared that her mother had sensed something was wrong in the final days before Elvis’s heart attack in 1977, describing moments when young Lisa Marie found her father looking unwell and out of sorts.
The memoir reveals Lisa Marie’s deep love for her father and the profound impact his death had on her life. She described how sitting with his casket helped her process his loss, a method that mirrored how she later dealt with Benjamin’s death.
In her final days, Lisa Marie was struggling with grief and appeared increasingly detached, according to Keough. However, Keough was clear in her belief that her mother’s behavior was not related to substance abuse, but rather the overwhelming weight of her emotional pain.
As the family continues to process the losses of both Benjamin and Lisa Marie, the release of From Here to the Great Unknown provides an intimate look into the Presley family’s grief, love, and resilience.
