Riley Keough believes 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 Keough believes 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 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.
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 very close.”
“They were as close as Elvis and his mother, and I just couldn’t imagine a world where she could survive without him.”
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 “very 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 really scared to have their child there like that.
But not me. I felt very lucky that there was a way I could raise him and delay him a little longer so I could let him rest.’
