Riley Keough and Michael Jackson
Getty Images (2)Riley Keough He was blind to the allegations made against him Michael Jackson When he was briefly her stepfather.
“I've never been told anything. It's actually not something I've asked as an adult,” Riley, 35, shared during a Wednesday, January 15, appearance on ABC's “Call Her Daddy” Podcast.. “I guess it was just the way it was. I don't know, I guess it never occurred to me.”
riley's mother, Lisa Marie PresleyShe married Jackson in 1994 after separating from her Danny Q. (Lisa Marie and Danny – who were married From 1988 to 1994 – Riley W Late son Benjaminwho died by suicide at the age of 27 in 2020.)
“I imagine my dad was really sad and reading the news and I'm sure — I'm just imagining,” Riley said during Wednesday's podcast. “I imagine he said all sorts of things to my mother that we didn't know about.”
Getty Images (3) Michael Jackson may have been one of the biggest stars in the world, but to Riley Keough, he was just a typical stepfather. Q (35 years old) recalled her relationship with the late pop icon on Thursday, October 10 (…) “I understand that my life was not normal, but to me, it seemed normal.”
Riley explained that Lisa Marie and Danny made it clear that they “don't fight about the kids,” which is why she was never privy to any private conversations.
“We didn't know anything. We weren't aware of any allegations,” she continued. “We didn't know. We had no awareness of that.”
Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson pose at the Chateau de Versailles on September 5, 1994 in Versailles, France.
Stefan Cardinale/Sigma via Getty ImagesIt was Jackson, who died in 2009 at the age of 50 Accused of sexual assault minors during the late 1990s and early 2000s but were never convicted of any charges.
“The only thing I knew was that they were in love and that their love for each other was real,” Riley said. “I was there and I remember. Everything else, I don't know, because I wasn't there for him.”
Lisa Marie Address the accusations against Jackson In her posthumous memoirs, From here to the great unknownto which Riley contributed ahead of its publication in October 2024. (Lisa Marie died at age 54 in January 2023 after suffering cardiac arrest.)
After Lisa Marie Presley's death in 2023, her eldest daughter, Riley Keough, picked up where she left off and completed her memoir, From Here into the Great Unknown. In the lead-up to the book's October 2024 release, Keogh spoke publicly about her mother for the first time since Presley's death, and spoke openly about her mother(…)
“I've never seen a damn thing like this,” she wrote. “Personally, I would have killed him if I had done that.”
Riley Keough
Call her fatherAs the granddaughter of the late Elvis Presleythe Daisy Jones and the Six The actress recalled that she had a crazy life while growing up. During the two years Lisa Marie was married to Jackson, and things “just got bigger.”
“I think when she saw Michael's life, there were things that she didn't have,” Riley shared on Wednesday's podcast. “She didn't have a plane at the time or things like that. Then she said, 'Oh, I've got to get a plane, and I've got to get this and that.'
Riley compared the differences between her mother's “simple” marriage to her father, Danny, and her relationship with Michael.
“At home, she didn't have 10 million helpers. She didn't need all that (with Danny),” Riley said. “I think that's changed.”
