It’s been almost two years since Lisa Marie Presley passed away, and her daughter Riley Keough has spoken out about her mother’s death.
Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough, recently announced the memoir From Here to the Great Unknown that she wrote with her mother before her passing.
While doing press for the book, which is set to be released on October 8, Keough revealed what she believes to be the true cause of her mother’s death.
Lisa Marie suffered cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died that same day at just 54 years old; an autopsy revealed she died from a “small bowel obstruction” from recent bariatric surgery.
However, Keough said in a new interview with People that her mother really did die of a broken heart, after Riley’s brother Benjamin died by suicide at just 27 years old in 2020.
It’s been almost two years since Lisa Marie Presley passed away, and her daughter Riley Keough has spoken out about her mother’s death.
While doing press for the book, which is out Oct. 8, Keough revealed what she believes to be the true cause of her mother’s death.
“My mother did her best to find strength for me and my younger sisters after Ben died, but we knew how much pain she was in,” said Keough, 35.
“My mother died physically from the after-effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart,” he said.
Lisa Marie admitted in 2022 that she would never “get over” her son’s death, and Riley revealed in her memoir that she and Lisa Marie began moving on by helping others.
“A little boy wrote to Riley and said, ‘I didn’t kill myself last night because of what you said I would do to my family and those left behind. So thank you.’ That helped me. That got me up,” Lisa Marie wrote in her memoir.
Riley added that Nick Cave’s 2016 documentary, One More Time With Feeling, also helped tremendously, calling it “a really beautiful depiction of grief.”
Riley had promised Lisa Marie that she would help write the memoir, but after her mother died in January 2023, she listened to recordings of her mother.
She admitted that her brother’s death “was incredibly difficult to write about, as was my mother’s descent into addiction. And her own death, of course.”
Riley had promised Lisa Marie that she would help write the memoir, but after her mother died in January 2023, she listened to recorded tapes of her mother.
“My mother died physically from the after-effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart,” he said.
“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance people can relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family,” Keough says.
However, Riley admits that her mother’s story is not “just about pain.”
“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance people can relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family,” Keough says.
“(My mother) wanted to write a book in the hope that someone could read her story and relate to it, to know that they are not alone in the world,” she added.
“Her hope with this book was simply human connection. And that’s mine,” Keough said.
