Lisa Marie Presley Took Up To 80 Pills Per Day During The Height Of Her Addiction

Lisa Marie Presley’s struggles included her battle with opioid addiction, which began after the birth of her twin girls, Harper and Finley Lockwood, in 2008. She opened up about this ordeal in her posthumous memoir From Here To The Great Unknown, which was released days ago.

Lisa Marie went from taking painkillers to deal with her C-section pain to becoming a recreational user, and then her dependence got so bad she began to swallow up to 80 pills per day. Her blood pressure would also heighten whenever she tried to withdraw.

Lisa Marie Presley warned her kids to stay off drugs

She was enough deterrent for her daughter and co-author Riley Keough to stay off drugs, as she would often warn her children not to end up like her. The late singer believed she was an addict because she had her first ordeal with substance abuse as a teenager, only to battle the same issue again in her forties.

Riley claimed her mother was a disciplined adult who would not even take Advil or Tylenol because of her teenage experience; however, her post-surgery recovery required her to dose on painkillers to heal, reeling her right back into her former vice.

Lisa Marie Presley held back her addiction for years

Riley agreed with Lisa Marie’s opinion that she always had the tendency to do drugs; however, she held back with her career, motherhood, family, and religion. Lisa Marie was also shocked that her fear caught up to her in her late thirties and around the age that her father, Elvis Presley, died.

Thankfully, Lisa Marie went to rehab on court orders and was slowly weaned off the painkillers. On leaving the facility, she went ahead to get bariatric surgery because she was tired of being shamed for her weight, though Riley thought she simply wanted a reason to be back on medication. Lisa Marie died in January 2023 due to complications from her surgery that led to a bowel obstruction.