Lisa Marie Presley’s ‘From Here to the Great Unknown’: 10 Revelations From Her Memoir

Nearly two years after her death, Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, hits bookshelves. Here are its biggest bombshells!

10. SHE SAW ELVIS’ DEATH COMING

While growing up at the family’s famed Memphis mansion, Graceland, Lisa Marie saw the effects of her father’s prescription drug abuse long before his 1977 death at the age of 42 from a heart attack. “I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die,’” she writes, recalling how she once found him face down on the floor of his bathroom. “I knew that something tragic was coming.”

The day he died, they shared a hug and kiss and exchanged “I love yous” before Lisa Marie, then 9, went off to bed. She awoke in the middle of the night to find him being carried out on a stretcher. “My life as I knew it was completely over.”

9. SHE TRIED TO KILL HERSELF

When she was 14, Lisa Marie — who died at the age of 54 in January 2023 from a “small bowel obstruction” — started dating a 23-year-old man who sold compromising photos of her. Devastated, she took 20 Valium with the intention of ending her life.

8. HER MOTHER’S BOYFRIEND ALLEGEDLY ABUSED HER

Lisa Marie claims her mother Priscilla’s former boyfriend, Mommie Dearest actor Michael Edwards, began sexually abusing her when she was 10. “He would touch me and spank me, telling me not to look,” she writes, adding, “I assume he was j—ing off.” Lisa Marie says that when her mother confronted Michael about the abuse, “he’d say, ‘Oh, I was drunk’ or ‘She was actually flirting with me.’ I was 11, 12, 13.”

7. SHE DID DRUGS AT THE SCIENTOLOGY CENTER

During her teenage years, Priscilla decided to move a rebellious Lisa Marie into Scientology’s Celebrity Centre. “The first morning I removed the large mirror from the wall, called my coke dealer and invited him and about six or seven other people over,” Lisa Marie writes. “We proceeded to have a four-day bender in that room.” (She says she later went on to embrace Scientology: “[It] actually helped [me]. It attracted cool, unusual, artistic people. It became my tribe.”)

6. SHE MET MICHAEL JACKSON WHEN SHE WAS 6

According to Lisa Marie, she first met her future husband Michael Jackson when she was “about 6.” Michael was in Las Vegas performing with his brothers, and Lisa Marie was there. She says she had no recollection of their initial meeting, but Michael did. According to the memoir, Michael invited Priscilla out to dinner when Lisa Marie was a teen. “I found out later that he was hoping that I’d come with her,” she writes. “He didn’t say so directly because he didn’t want it to seem weird.”

5. MICHAEL TOLD HER HE WAS A VIRGIN

When they met again in 1993, they “just clicked,” Lisa Marie writes. Michael told Lisa Marie he was a virgin. He’d kissed exes Tatum O’Neal and Brooke Shields and told her Madonna “had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened,” writes Lisa Marie. At first, she was

nervous about getting intimate with him, but “he was instigating everything. The physical stuff started happening, which I was shocked at. I had thought that maybe we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!’”

4. SHE NEVER SAW MICHAEL ACT SHADY

Prior to his death in 2009, the “Thriller” singer was accused of sexually abusing several young boys. (He denied the charges.) Lisa Marie — who was married to Michael from 1994 until 1996 — says she did not witness any predatory behavior. “As for child molestation, I never saw a goddamn thing like that,” she writes. “I personally would have killed him if I had.”

3. SHE PLANNED RILEY’S PREGNANCY AFTER AN ABORTION

Before marrying musician Danny Keough in 1988, Lisa Marie got pregnant and had an abortion, a decision she soon regretted. “[It was] the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life,” she writes, noting that she “planned, plotted and schemed” her subsequent pregnancy with Riley, 35. “Danny knew he had to marry me. I trapped him. I didn’t really mean to, but I did.”

2. SHE DID DRUGS ON THE WAY TO REHAB

In 2008, after giving birth to twins Harper and Finley, 16 (dad is Lisa Marie’s ex Michael Lockwood), the singer became addicted to drugs and was consuming 80 pills a day. Her son, Ben, rented a tour bus to drive her from Nashville to LA to get her help. “We drove because I wanted to do cocaine the whole time and couldn’t if I was on an airplane,” she says. “I didn’t think I could even get through airport security.”

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1. SHE KEPT BEN ON ICE

“We all knew my mom was going to die of a broken heart,” Riley writes of the aftermath of her brother Ben’s suicide at the age of 27 in 2020. (Riley completed her mom’s memoir after her passing, using tapes Lisa Marie had made and adding her own recollections and thoughts.) Following Ben’s death, Lisa Marie brought his body back to her home, where she kept him in a 55-degree room for two months before finally laying him to rest at Graceland. “I got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there,” Lisa Marie writes. Riley says that when she and her mom got replicas of Ben’s tattoos, Lisa Marie opened his casket to show the tattoo artist Ben’s ink. “I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” says the Daisy Jones & the Six star. “Soon after that, we all kind of got this vibe from my brother that he didn’t want his body in this house anymore.”