Riley Keough posts a heartbreaking photo of her as a child with her mother Lisa Marie Presley

Riley Keough posted a heartbreaking photo of her childhood with her mother Lisa Marie Presley, who died last week at the age of 54 of cardiac arrest.

Keough, 33, posted a photo of her mother looking up adoringly at her as a toddler as she stared back at him with a soft smile on her face.

Presley’s eldest son simply captioned the heartbreaking post with a red heart.

It is the first time that the Daisy Jones and the Six actress has acknowledged the death of her mother, who died last week in hospital after suffering two cardiac arrests.

Presley was buried at the family’s Graceland estate before a celebration of life service on Sunday at 9 p.m.

She was buried next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who took his own life in 2020, and across from her famous father Elvis’ plot.

She simply captioned the post with a red heart. It is the first time that Keough acknowledges the death of her mother.

Presley grew up fearing her own mortality after finding her father dead at the age of nine, traumatizing her. She often spoke of her own death and even referred to the Graceland estate’s backyard as a “graveyard”.

‘How many people have a family grave in the backyard? How many people are reminded of their fate, their mortality, every damn day? All the graves are lined up and there is a place there waiting for me, right next to my grandmother,” she told Playboy in 2003.

Despite her fear, the singer believed she had many more years to live last Sunday and told friend David Kessler, who works as a grief counselor, that she had “a lot to do.”

The couple were at the Graceland estate to celebrate what would have been Elvis’s 88th birthday and Presley, who rarely makes public appearances, told the adoring crowd: “You’re the only people who can get me out of the house.” house”.

‘I’m not kidding. I love you back and that’s why I’m here,’ she said.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County coroner deferred the results of his official cause of death pending the results of a toxicology test, which could take years.

Several of the Presleys also died of heart problems, including his own father, who died in 1977 at the age of 42 of cardiac arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats abnormally and then stops.

His grandmother, Gladys Love Presley, died at the age of 46 from heart failure, and his grandfather, Vernon Elvis Presley, died at age 63 from cardiac arrest.

The mother-daughter duo were seen with Elvis’ ex-wife Priscilla (right) at the Elvis premiere in June.

Lisa Marie with her parents in 1970. Presley found her father dead at the age of nine. After finding his father dead, he became afraid of his own mortality and often referred to Graceland’s backyard as a “graveyard”.

Presley was laid to rest at the family’s Graceland estate before a celebration of life service Sunday at 9 p.m. She was buried next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who took his own life in 2020, and in front of his famous father Elvis.

Additionally, in August of last year, Lisa Marie wrote an essay on the death of her son Benjamin to commemorate National Grief Awareness.

‘I can understand why people might want to avoid you once a terrible tragedy occurs. Especially a father who loses his child because it is really your worst nightmare, ”he wrote in his essay, which was published by People.

Lisa Marie admitted that she had stayed away from the parents of other people whose children committed suicide, something that seemed to haunt her.

“I can remember a couple of times in my life where I met parents who lost their child and even though I was able to be there for them when it happened, I avoided them afterwards and never bothered to follow up because they literally became a proxy. . of my greatest fear,’ he wrote.

“I also discreetly judged them, and swore that I would never do whatever I felt they did or neglected in their actions and parenting choices with their child.”

She added that she had been “living in the horrible reality” of the “relentless grip” of grief since her son’s death.

Keough has also acknowledged his brother’s death multiple times, including in October when he wrote a tribute post on his birthday, writing: “You would be 30 today.” Happy birthday my best friend, my angel. This world is strange without you.

Presley was buried next to her son Benjamin (pictured together), who took his own life in 2020

Keough also acknowledged his brother’s death several times, including in October when he wrote a tribute post on his birthday (left), writing: “You would be 30 today.” Happy birthday my best friend, my angel. This world is strange without you. In July, he also posted a wedding photo of him and Benjamin (right).

In July, she also posted a photo of her and Benjamin’s wedding, writing, “Not an hour goes by that I don’t think of you and miss you.” Today it’s been two years since you left and I still can’t believe you’re not here. You are so loved my Ben Ben.

Since her mother’s death, fans have come to place flowers at the estate’s front gate to honor the singer.

“In lieu of flowers, the family encourages anyone wishing to send something to do so in the form of a donation to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation,” Graceland’s website reads.

Presley died on January 12 after suffering a second cardiac arrest while in the hospital. His family signed a ‘do not resuscitate’ order.

The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, 54, was rushed to hospital Thursday morning after her housekeeper found her collapsed inside her Calabasas home.

EMTs who arrived at her home were able to revive her and her pulse returned, but by the time she arrived at the hospital she was brain dead, TMZ reported Friday.

The family rushed to his bedside, where he was in an induced coma and on life support. Upon learning that he was already brain dead, they signed a ‘do not resuscitate’ order.

She suffered a second cardiac arrest and died. Her mother Priscilla, 77, was at her bedside.

Presley attended the Globe Globes a few days before he passed away

“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday night.

“She was the most passionate, strong, loving woman I have ever met.”

Her ex-husband Danny Keough, the first of four, with whom she was living at the time of her death, had returned to the house shortly after she collapsed and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

Keough is the father of actress daughter Riley, 33, and son Benjamin, who committed suicide in July 2020 at age 27.

Her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, is the father of Presley’s 14-year-old twin daughters, Harper Vivienne and Finlay. that they have said that they will not return to the house where their mother died.

Presley was at the Golden Globes two days before his death, celebrating Austin Butler’s Best Actor award for playing his father, where she burst into tears during the actor’s speech.

And on Sunday, the singer-songwriter told the devout crowd at her father’s Memphis estate that they were the “only people who can get me out of the house,” to mark her 88th birthday.