Riley Keough has addressed whether there is a “curse” on her famous family.
The 35-year-old actress said Tuesday that she doesn’t think so.
She is the granddaughter of the late rock and roll legend Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, and after her mother Lisa Marie Presley passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54. His brother Benjamin died in 2020 at age 27.
Speaking live on stage at the Jerry Moss Theater in Los Angeles on the final stop of his book tour, he said: “I think the word ‘curse’ is used because my family is not considered real mythology or anything like that. , but something really. They are very common things, like addiction.
“Everyone here has loved someone with addiction issues or lost someone tragically.”
Riley has insisted that her “dream” for the future is for there to be no “addiction struggles” within the family.
Riley Keough has addressed whether there is a “curse” on her famous family. The 35-year-old actress said Tuesday that she doesn’t think so; seen on Oprah in October
She is the granddaughter of the late rock and roll legend Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, and after her mother Lisa Marie Presley passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54. His brother Benjamin died in 2020; seen with mom in 2017
‘I mean, the hope is that future generations of our family won’t have to struggle with addiction as much. Of course, that’s the dream.’
Lisa Marie, who was married to Danny Keough from 1988 to 1995, died after sudden cardiac arrest.
In 2020, his son Benjamín took his own life at the age of 27.
The Daisy Jones and the Six star is now the sole heir to the Graceland estate left by her grandfather following an intense legal battle with her grandmother Priscilla Presley, noting that she was “very involved” in the process before her mother died , and Only “attention” was new to her.
She said: “There was a lot of attention on it and on me, but before that, it was something I was very involved in.”
‘And my mom was very… if there were things with the property, whatever it was, I was already very involved in that.
‘So it wasn’t like, “Wow, what’s this new thing?” My mom would come to me with everything.
‘So there was that awareness and it was something I was familiar with. That wasn’t something new basically, I would say, but I would say the attention that was paid to it was new.’
Elvis seen at home in photo shared by Riley on Oprah
Elvis seen in an image Riley provided to Oprah’s CBS special
Speaking live on stage at the Jerry Moss Theater in Los Angeles on the final stop of his book tour, he said: “I think the word ‘curse’ is used because my family is not seen as a real mythology or anything.” like that, but as a real one they are just very common things, like addiction,” said Riley seen with Lisa Marie in 2022;
This comes after Riley believes that Lisa Marie Presley reached the “end” of her life when her son Benjamin died.
The late singer, daughter of superstar Elvis Presley, was left distraught when Benjamin Keough took his own life in 2020 at the age of 27.
Riley is convinced that the loss of her younger brother had a devastating impact on her mother, who died less than three years later, in January 2023, at the age of 54.
during a television special With Oprah Winfrey, Riley explained that she was worried about her mother after Benjamin, telling the media mogul: “The moment my brother died, I thought, ‘This is the end of her,’ because they were so close.
“They were as close as Elvis and his mother, and I just couldn’t imagine a world where she could survive without him.”
Riley believes Lisa Marie reached ‘the end’ of her life when her son Benjamin died in 2020
Riley admitted that fears for her mother grew during the last weeks of her life, adding: “The last three weeks she was alive I was with her several times and I felt worried.”
“I think there was always a kind of undercurrent for me because of the feeling that I was on borrowed time with her.
“But there were a couple of interactions with her where she sort of felt distant, a kind of resignation.”
Oprah asked the actress if she feared Lisa Marie would return to drug use after previously battling an opioid addiction, and Riley responded, “It didn’t feel like drugs.” I have a lot of experience with drugs. “I felt like a tired person.”
Lisa Marie was buried in the meditation garden at the Graceland family estate in Memphis, Tennessee, alongside her father Elvis and son Benjamin, and Riley explained that she finds it difficult to visit the property where the interview with Oprah took place.
She said: ‘Normally I don’t want to come here and I have to force myself to come. And then once I’m here, I really feel a sense of closeness when I sit in the meditation garden.’
It comes after it was revealed that Lisa Marie kept her late son’s body in her home for two months using dry ice in a separate cottage on the grounds of her Los Angeles home.
Riley is convinced that the loss of her younger brother had a devastating impact on her mother, who died less than three years later, in January 2023, at the age of 54.
Also in the book, Riley said that Ben looked a lot like Elvis.
In his posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, obtained by DailyMail.com, he wrote: “There is no law in the state of California that requires someone to be buried immediately.”
Riley, who finished the book after her mother’s death, wrote that it was “really important” that Lisa Marie “had enough time to say goodbye to her, the same way she had with her father.”
Lisa went on to explain that she just wanted to continue caring for her son even after his passing. She wrote: ‘That was part of the reason it took so long. I got very used to him, to taking care of him and keeping him there. I think anyone else would be very scared to have their child there like that.
But not me. I felt very lucky that there was a way I could raise him, slow him down a little longer so I could let him rest.’