{"id":112215,"date":"2024-10-09T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112215"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:55:55","slug":"riley-keough-tells-oprah-about-lisa-marie-presleys-tough-last-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112215","title":{"rendered":"Riley Keough Tells Oprah About Lisa Marie Presley&#8217;s Tough Last Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/riley-keough\/\" id=\"auto-tag_riley-keough\" data-tag=\"riley-keough\">Riley Keough<\/a> sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/oprah-winfrey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oprah-winfrey\" data-tag=\"oprah-winfrey\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a> at her family\u2019s estate, Graceland, for a one-hour CBS special devoted to discussion of the new book \u201cFrom Here to the Great Unknown,\u201d which Keough completed after her mother began dictating memories for a memoir before dying in 2022. Among the revelations that were arising Tuesday, with the release of the book and the prime-time event, were just how deep <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/lisa-marie-presley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lisa-marie-presley\" data-tag=\"lisa-marie-presley\">Lisa Marie Presley<\/a> was into grief in her final two years, although she seemed to have overcome a drug addiction, even as her health failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmong the stories already being most talked about from the book \u2014 and discussed in detail in \u201cAn Oprah Special: The Presleys \u2014 Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley\u201d \u2014 is the extent to which Lisa Marie Presley literally did not want to let go of her cherished son, Ben, after he died by suicide in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs recounted in the special, Lisa Marie kept Ben\u2019s body around for two months after he passed, unable to decide whether to have him buried at Graceland or Hawaii, but also feeling that she could better process her grief by having his presence remain in the house for an extended period, even in death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOn paper, I could see how this sounds completely insane and absurd,\u201d Keough said, \u201cbut my mom was just very much herself\u2026 You know, she wasn\u2019t a crazy lady.\u201d She compared her mother\u2019s way of taking longer to process death as more akin to what happens in non-Western societies \u2014 while acknowledging that it seemed bizarre when she considered it through others\u2019 eyes\u2026 which she had occasion to do when a visitor came to the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt was about two months, and everybody in the house was in the grieving process,\u201d Keough told Winfrey, who asked, \u201cCan you explain how that can happen?\u201d Said Keough, \u201cShe pulled some wild things off, but I think that the plan was to bury him here (at Graceland) with her dad. And we weren\u2019t gonna come here for about three weeks. \u2026 She knew that the woman was gonna keep my brother at the funeral home, and I think she just didn\u2019t like the idea that he was far away, and she didn\u2019t know what was being done. And I think that she just wanted control over the situation, given our family and all of that, and also just being a mother\u2026 Basically, she found a very compassionate funeral home owner who was a mother, and she said, \u2018Well, look, if you do all these things, you can keep him in a room. You just have to have somebody tend (to the body).\u201d (In the book, Keough elaborates that room temperature had to be maintained at 55 degrees.) <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWinfrey prompted Keough to recount the story of how they brought in a tattoo artist to get inked with names on their hands that would mirror the tattoos on Ben\u2019s. Lisa Marie \u201creally wanted the placement to be exactly right, and he\u2019s like, \u2018OK, do you have any photos?\u2019 \u2026 And she was like, \u2018No. But I can show you\u2019,\u201d leading him to the body in the next room. \u201cI stayed quiet because it\u2019s my mom and she does what she wants, but it was definitely one of the most, like, absurd moments, (yet) it was all very matter of fact. \u2026 God bless him, he was very normal about the whole thing\u2026 Then when he left, I was like, \u2018Do you know how crazy that was?&#8217;\u201d Queried Winfrey, \u201cCan you imagine what that tattoo artist had to say to his family when he went home that night?\u201d Keough cracked: \u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019ll write a book, at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlthough both the host and subject had to briefly smile as the strange story was recounted, the subject of Lisa Marie\u2019s extreme grief was treated with the utmost seriousness, with tape recordings being played back from her final months in which she spoke of having not wanted to go on living, \u201cliterally,\u201d after the passing of Ben. Although Riley says she had a tight relationship with her mother, she says the bond her brother had with Lisa Marie was like the legendary one <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/elvis-presley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elvis-presley\" data-tag=\"elvis-presley\">Elvis Presley<\/a> had with his mother, Gladys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs the new book reveals, Lisa Marie had not had any serious drug problem after her teenage years \u2014 until she had twins at 40, and then fell into a debilitating opiate addiction, taking drugs after having a C-section. Keough said that her mother did manage to go through rehab more than a decade later, and that she was proud of Lisa Marie for not seriously relapsing after the death of Ben. But in her last year, the combination of ongoing grief and having not taken care of her body created an ominous situation that left the daughter feeling her mother might not survive for long. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe last sort of three weeks that she was alive, I was with her a few times that I felt worried,\u201d Keough said. \u201cI think there was always sort of an undertone for me because of this feeling that I was on borrowed time with her.\u201d Keough said that the last time she saw her mother, \u201cthere was just something strange. I don\u2019t know how to describe it. She just felt detached, tired.\u201d Winfrey asked if Keough thought her mother was back on drugs. \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel like drugs,\u201d she said. \u201cI have a lot of experience with the drugs. It felt like a tired person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere was at least some light in Lisa Marie\u2019s last months as she sought a reason to forge on. \u201cI think that her idea of her way forward was going to be through like grief work and helping other parents through grief. She would have these meetings at her house where she would put little snacks out for these families and have our grief counselor come and run these sort of grief circles. And she wanted to do a podcast. I think that it had to be about my brother if she was going to sort of find a new path for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere was less time spent on exploring Lisa Marie\u2019s marriage to Michael Jackson, which is explored in considerably greater depth in the book. Keough did say that her mother was truly and madly in love with Jackson, before things went south some time into their marriage. \u201cShe really was obsessed with him. I remember when he would come to the house and she would run to her bathroom and put her makeup on and panic and want to get herself all dressed up for him. She just adored him. \u2026 I can only speak to my experience with Michael, and my experience was that he was only kind and loving to me and my family, and I saw them in a very seemingly happy, loving relationship. I think that probably our version of normal was a little bit different, but for me in my life, it felt very normal.\u201d (In the book, addressing one oft-asked question, Lisa Marie says that Michael told her he was a virgin when they met, but that ended before they were wed.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe special had its lighter moments, with Winfrey cheerfully announcing \u201cHere we are!\u201d as the crew arrived at Graceland, and sharing memories of how she and Lisa Marie called each other \u201ccousin\u201d after, in a visit back in 2006, the host shared the information that Presley was a family name on her maternal grandmother\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKeough showed off artifacts like her mother\u2019s key to one of the golf carts that she rode recklessly around Graceland as an adolescent, and the contents of the black box that Elvis Presley lugged around from place to place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWinfrey asked Keough to share her fondest memory of her mother, and it was how much Lisa Marie wanted to watch over and cradle her granddaughter, Tupelo, when Riley became a mother two years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShe was such a great mother, but she also was like particularly great with babies\u2026 Her instinct with babies was incredible. I think that if I can just make (Tupelo) feel loved, the way my mom made us feel loved \u2014 it was unconditional,\u201d Keough said, \u201ctruly. And even when she was going through the tough times, the drugs \u2026 you know, we got in fights, as she did things that I did not approve of. We\u2019d have awful interactions, as you do with someone on drugs. But the love was always there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSaid Winfrey, \u201cI know she\u2019s gonna love the fact that you and I are together. Wherever she is, she\u2019s going, \u2018Thank you, cuz.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/riley-keough-oprah-winfrey-special-book-lisa-marie-presley-1236172282\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Keough sat down with Oprah Winfrey at her family\u2019s estate, Graceland, for a one-hour CBS special devoted to discussion of the new book \u201cFrom Here to the Great Unknown,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112215\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}