Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley
John Scioli/WireImageRiley Keough She almost removed the story about her late brother. Benjamin QFrom my mother Lisa Marie Presleydiary – but he decided against it.
“My brother’s body was something I thought about putting out, but my mom was so — on the tapes — not giving up — that people would know that,” Riley, 35, said during a Thursday, December 12, appearance on the show. Jenna Bush Hager's “Open Book with Gina” podcast..
Riley co-wrote Presley's memoirs and helped publish them after his death. From here to the great unknownin October. In one chapter, Presley – who died From a heart attack At the age of 54 in 2023 – she remembered leaving her son Benjamin's body in it Her home for two months After his death in 2020. (Benjamin He died by suicide At age 27.)
“I think it would scare the living away from being mad at anyone else to have their son there that way,” Presley wrote. “But not me.”
While completing the late Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, Riley Keough revealed new details about her mother's final days. “In the years before her death, my mother, Lisa Marie Presley, began writing her memoirs. Although she tried different methods and gave many interviews about the book, she could not figure out (…)
After thinking it over, Riley decided that “there's no part” of Presley that cared about what people said. So, that anecdote was included in the book.
Benjamin Keough and Lisa Marie Presley
MegaRiley noticed From here to the great unknown It is a “very honest portrayal” of her late mother. The actress's goal was to be “as honest as possible” when completing the memoir. “I was protecting her,” she added.
“I think when my brother died, she didn't want to write about anything but my brother. She wanted to write about grief, but she actually started writing autobiography,” Riley explained during Thursday's podcast episode. “And so, she was at a loss for words. About what to do.”
Presley asked Riley Help with notes Before her death. Follow her Mother's death 2023the Daisy Jones and the Six The star completed the book. Presley and Reilly's account of what happened is outlined in different lines.
Reflecting on Benjamin's death, Riley remembers being the one who told her Mother he died. “We all knew my mother would die of a broken heart,” she wrote of Presley in the wake of Benjamin's death.
“I think she really wanted it to feel elegant and authentic to her, but she also didn't like talking about herself and was very shy. So, I think her idea was like, 'You know me better than I know me,'” Riley explained to Bush Hager. “It was this thing that was unfinished. “So much so that I was the only one who could complete it.”
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