Lisa Marie Presley describes day Elvis died in posthumous memoir

When Elvis Presley's lone child, Lisa Marie, died aged 54 past twelvemonth she near down an intimate request: for girl Riley Keough to decorativeness disconnected her memoir based connected recorded tapes and their clip together.

On the time of the book's release, the BBC met with Keough successful New York to sermon From Here to the Great Unknown, a beingness communicative filled with trauma, addiction, nonaccomplishment and grief.

"It made maine affectional that she was sharing it with the satellite due to the fact that it was a communicative that she felt precise protective of,” Keough, a soft-spoken 35-year-old actress, said connected Tuesday.

In the memoir, Lisa Marie Presley details the toll that her legendary dad's decease - erstwhile she was conscionable 9 - took connected her.

For the archetypal time, she describes waking up connected the day that helium died successful August 1977 and sensing thing was wrong, earlier moving into her father's country crossed the hallway and seeing him facedown connected the bath floor.

His assemblage was displayed successful an unfastened casket astatine Graceland for 2 days. After the crowds left, Lisa Marie Presley would spell and “touch his look and clasp his hand, to speech to him".

"There person been nights arsenic an big erstwhile I would conscionable get drunk and perceive to his euphony and beryllium determination and cry. The grief inactive comes. It’s inactive conscionable there,” she says.

It is an lawsuit that Keough believes her parent ne'er afloat processed.

She told the BBC that she felt aggravated astatine her celebrated gramps arsenic a kid due to the fact that she associated his songs with seeing her parent successful pain, adjacent truthful galore years aft his death.

While determination are besides memories of tender, backstage moments astatine Graceland, calamity is simply a changeless taxable successful the story.

The decease of Lisa Marie Presley's son, Ben Keough, who took his ain beingness successful July 2020 astatine the property of 27, led to specified aggravated grief that his assemblage was kept successful the household location connected adust crystal for 2 months earlier yet being buried.

"Ben was the emotion of mom's life" and they "shared a precise heavy psyche bond," Keough writes astir her brother.

She told the BBC that having much clip with his assemblage helped her parent to "get her thoughts together".

"I deliberation that it's beauteous communal successful the mode that we grip decease successful the Western satellite to [keep it] precise speedy and there's not truly a grieving process,” she said. “The assemblage is taken distant and the doors are unopen and you don't spot anything. It's not the mode that it's done truthful overmuch successful different places.”

Presley's wellness went downhill pursuing her son's decease and burial. Keough writes successful the publication that she believed her parent was going to yet dice of a breached heart.

Presley archetypal met popular icon Michael Jackson erstwhile she was six years old. Her begetter was performing astatine the Hilton successful Las Vegas and the Jackson 5 were performing nearby.

They met again successful 1993 erstwhile she was 25 and deed it off, she says successful the book. They worked retired a concealed telephone telephone regular and began gathering regularly.

During an eight-day travel to Las Vegas, she would spell to his country each nighttime and they would enactment up talking and watching movies. "Nothing happened physically but the transportation was truthful insanely strong. No 1 had ever seen that broadside of him,” she says.

On the last night, helium turned disconnected the lights successful the edifice country and proposed. "And successful the acheronian Michael said, "I don't cognize if you've noticed, but I'm wholly successful emotion with you. I privation america to get joined and for you to person my children".

Lisa Marie agreed and they joined successful 1994. It was her 2nd marriage, having divorced from Keough’s father, Danny.

But the mates often fought implicit Jackson’s suspected cause use, Presley writes. He became secretive and "awful", and disappeared for days - behaviours that she recognised from her father.

"It was precise passionate and benignant of conscionable went up successful flames. I cognize they some cared for each different precise deeply, and determination were a batch of things astatine play,” Keough said.

Presley's short-lived and tumultuous 3rd marriage, which was to histrion Nicolas Cage, lasted lone 108 days. That's reflected successful the book, with nary nonstop notation of the American histrion successful the tapes.

Keough writes that she "doesn't cognize if they were genuinely successful love, though she said they were".

She recalls that Cage would bring her parent diamonds and each clip helium showed up it would beryllium successful a antithetic coloured car, usually a Lamborghini.

Cage said successful a 2003 interrogation "sometimes I privation we couldn’t person rushed the matrimony and sometimes I regret rushing the divorce”.

Presley moved to England for "her past changeable astatine stability" with her 4th hubby Michael Lockwood, Keough says.

She bought a historical spot successful Rotherfield and took up gardening, cooking and besides enjoyed having beverage by the fireplace.

The archetypal mates of years of a "sweet small beingness successful the countryside" were "magical", she writes, but wide the determination turned retired to beryllium unhealthy for her.

She was distanced from her friends, the loneliness and isolation took a toll and her cause usage increased.

Lisa Marie lone had 2 friends cited during the period: the precocious English guitarist Jeff Beck and the erstwhile Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson who shared a moving tribute astatine her funeral.

The publication doesn't afloat tackle the reported rifts betwixt Presley and her mother, Priscilla Presley, but it is wide they had a hard relationship.

"I was a symptom successful her ass instantly and I ever felt she didn't privation me," Presley says successful the opening chapter.

It besides doesn't interaction connected the family's fiscal difficulties, including high-profile battles implicit the Graceland estate.

However, Keough told the BBC she hopes readers volition travel distant with an quality to subordinate to "very quality things that happen, similar addiction and grief and emotion and mothers and daughters and family".

"I'm alert that there's a batch of calamity successful the book, but I deliberation that each of america had a truly wonderfully joyful, colourful, funny, brainsick beingness arsenic well,” she said. "I'm conscionable grateful to beryllium here."