Lisa Marie Presley opened up about her time in the Church of Scientology in her new memoir, which her daughter Riley Keough will publish posthumously.
Presley, who died last year at age 54, abused drugs between the ages of 13 and 17, until her mother admitted her to a Scientology rehab center.
Reflecting on his experience, Presley wrote, “Scientology really helped.”
He continued: ‘The church felt radical in an exciting way; It didn’t really feel like an organized religion. It attracted artistic, unusual and cool people. It became my tribe.’
Despite enjoying her time at the church, the singer admits she broke some of the rules when she first registered at the Scientology Celebrity Center as a teenager.
The late Lisa Marie Presley opened up about her time in the Church of Scientology in her new memoir, which will be published posthumously.
“The first morning I took the big mirror off the wall, called my cocaine dealer and invited him and about six or seven other people,” he wrote.
“We proceeded to have a four-day bender in that room.”
Presley left Scientology in 2014 and her daughter Riley is also rumored to have left as well.
Presley’s life was full of tragedy. His son Benjamín committed suicide in July 2020, at only 27 years old, after a long battle against addiction.
Her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson also collapsed amid her drug abuse, and she herself became addicted to opioids in 2008, when she was given a short-term prescription during her recovery from the birth of her twin daughters, Harper Vivienne. and Finley.
In 2013, he was heavily abusing cocaine and entered rehab at least five times.
She was believed to have been sober in recent years, but following the death of her son, her ex-husband Michael Lockwood said he feared she might relapse.
Presley, who died last year at age 54, abused drugs between the ages of 13 and 17, until her mother admitted her to a Scientology rehab center. (Pictured in 1991)
The daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was just nine years old when her father died at age 42 of a heart attack, possibly caused by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.
As a teenager, she rebelled against drugs from the ages of 13 to 17, but her mother put her in The Castle, a Scientology center in Hollywood, to get her off drugs.
“I did everything except mushrooms, heroin or crack,” he said.
‘Cocaine, sedatives, marijuana and drinking, all at the same time… I don’t know how I experienced that.
‘I woke up one day to a bunch of people on the ground. I drove to the Church of Scientology and said, ‘Someone…help me right now.’
For a while it worked, and Lisa Marie said she was drug-free since she was 17.
At the age of 27 she married Michael Jackson, her second marriage, after a six-year union with actor Danny Keough, father of Benjamin and his actress sister Riley, now 35 years old.
Presley suffered cardiac arrest at his Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died that same day at just 54 years old.
Her third marriage, to Nicholas Cage, lasted only three months; Cage had also battled drug addiction in his 20s and revealed that he took magic mushrooms with his cat.
In 2006 she married musician Michael Lockwood, and the birth of her twin daughters began her own descent into drug addiction through opioid abuse.
The extent of her problem was laid bare amid her painful divorce from Lockwood in 2016, after a decade of marriage.
In a 2017 deposition obtained by Radar Online, he admitted to abusing cocaine, opioids, painkillers and alcohol.
Presley went into cardiac arrest at his Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died that same day at just 54 years old, with an autopsy revealing that he died from a “small intestine obstruction” due to recent bariatric surgery.