Lisa Marie Presley’s Memoir Reveals Shocking Bombshells, Including Addiction and More

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

"Sometimes I'd walk into my mom's bedroom and find her sitting on the floor alone, drunk, listening to her father's music, crying," recalls her daughter Riley Keough in From Here to the Great Unknown , the memoir she completed after Lisa Marie's 2023 death.

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

"I hope my daddy doesn't die," she wrote in a poem in her diary.

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

Starting at age 11, she endured abuse from one of her mother Priscilla Presley 's boyfriends.

Lisa Marie married at 20 and then left Danny Keough , the father of Riley and son Benjamin, for Michael Jackson, who was a virgin when they met. "I was actually so happy," she wrote of their marriage. "I've never been that happy again."

She married and divorced twice more. Following the birth of her daughters Harper and Finley in 2008, Lisa Marie became addicted to painkillers. "It escalated to 80 pills a day," she wrote.

As difficult as that was, nothing could prepare her for the 2020 suicide death of Benjamin. Unable to let go, Lisa Marie kept her son's body on dry ice for two months.

"I think it would scare the living [expletive] out of anybody else...But not me," she wrote. "I felt so fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest."

Following Lisa Marie's sudden death from a bowel obstruction, she was buried beside her son and near her father, Elvis, in the memorial garden at Graceland.