Lisa Marie Presley was taking 80 opioid pills a DAY as she felt it was ‘too painful to be sober’ new memoir reveals

Lisa Marie Presley was taking 80 pills a day at the height of her opioid addiction, her new memoir From Here To The Great Unknown claims.

The singer, who died in 2023 at the age of 54, had become dependent on opioids after the C-section birth of her twin daughters Finley and Harper.

In her book, which her eldest daughter Riley Keough helped complete, she shared that opioid addiction took over.

“It escalated to 80 pills a day,” Lisa Marie said in her book, which went on sale Tuesday.

“It took more and more time to get high, and I honestly don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But at some point it does decide.”

The singer, who died in 2023 at the age of 54, had become dependent on opioids after the C-section birth of her twin daughters Finley and Harper. In her book, which her eldest daughter Riley Keough helped complete, she shared that opioid addiction got the best of her. Seen in 2022

Lisa Marie added that the drug use was initially “recreational” but later “it stopped being so” because she became dependent on it.

Opioids are a class of drugs that includes synthetic opioids such as fentanyl; painkillers that are legally available by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine; the illegal drug heroin; and many others.

Lisa Marie also struggled with the suicide death of her son Benjamin in 2020.

“It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal from the big leagues,” Lisa Marie wrote in her book. ‘I just wanted to check out. It was too painful to be sober.”

Keough, 35, added that her mother didn’t start taking opioids until after she had twins.

But then she started taking them more often than necessary as the addiction “progressed.”

The entire family was surprised by her addiction as, except for a short time in her youth, she never liked to use drugs of any kind, the book said.

Lisa Marie eventually ended up in the hospital and then in rehab after overdosing.

Riley wrote that Lisa Marie then got high “on the post-rehab cocktail.” But when she had a seizure, she finally decided to sober up for good.

“She was very chastened by the attack,” Riley wrote.

Here Lisa Marie is seen with all four of her children in 2019

But the real problem came when Lisa Marie bariatric surgery, a medical term for surgical procedures used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions.

Long-term weight loss with bariatric surgery can be achieved by altering intestinal hormones, physically reducing stomach size, reducing nutrient absorption, or a combination of these.

After Lisa Marie died, it was shared that it was not from an opioid addiction, but rather a “small bowel obstruction’ caused by bariatric surgery.

The autopsy found that the opioids in her system did not contribute to her death.

“It escalated to 80 pills a day,” Lisa Marie said in her book, which went on sale Tuesday. “It took more and more time to get high, and I honestly don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But it decides at some point’; seen with Riley in 2010

Lisa Marie with her mother Priscilla Presley, left, and the book cover, right

This comes after Keough said she hopes to “honor” her late mother with the memoir.

The Hollywood actress has completed the book her mother was working on at the time of her death and considers it a “gift” to have the opportunity to tell Lisa Marie’s story to the world.

In a behind-the-scenes video of her in a recording booth, Riley said, “I want to not only honor my mother, but also tell a human story in what I know is an extraordinary circumstance.”

‘I am aware that the recordings my mother left behind are a gift.

“So often all that remains of a loved one is a saved and resaved voicemail, a short video on a phone, a few favorite photos. I take the privilege of these ties very seriously.”

Elvis and Priscilla with baby Lisa Marie in Tennessee in 1968

The memoir is about Lisa Marie’s struggles after Elvis’ death and the tragic death of her son Benjamin. Riley hopes it presents her as “a three-dimensional human.”

The star of Daisy Jones and The Six said: ‘What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done to complete it for her, is go beneath the idea of ​​the magazine headline about her and reveal the core of who she is. was.

“To make her a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, outspoken, funny, traumatized, joyful, grieving – everything she was throughout her remarkable life.

“I want to give my mother a voice in a way that eluded her during her lifetime.”

Lisa Marie at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills. She died two days later, on January 12