Lisa Marie Presley spoke about her time in the Church of Scientology in her new memoir, to be released posthumously by her daughter Riley Keough.
Presley, who died last year at the age of 54, abused drugs from the ages of 13 to 17 until her mother checked her into a Scientology drug rehabilitation center.
Reflecting on her experiences, Presley wrote, “Scientology really helped.”
She continued, “The church felt radical in an exciting way; it didn’t actually feel like an organized religion. It attracted cool, unusual, artistic people. It became my tribe.’
Despite enjoying her time in church, the singer admits she bent some rules when she first checked into the Scientology Celebrity Center as a teenager.
The late Lisa Marie Presley spoke about her time in the Church of Scientology in her new memoir, to be released posthumously
“The first morning I took the full-length mirror off the wall, called my coke dealer and invited him and about six or seven other people,” she wrote.
“We then had a four-day bender in that room.”
Presley left Scientology in 2014 and her daughter Riley is rumored to have left as well.
Presley’s life was full of tragedies. Her son Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 at the age of 27, after a long battle with addiction.
Her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson also collapsed due to his drug abuse, and she herself became addicted to opioids in 2008, when she was given a short-term prescription while recovering from the birth of her twin daughters, Harper Vivienne and Finley.
In 2013, she heavily abused cocaine and went to rehab at least five times.
She was believed to have been sober in recent years, but after her son’s death, her ex-husband Michael Lockwood said he feared she would relapse.
Presley, who died last year at the age of 54, abused drugs from the ages of 13 to 17 until her mother checked her into a Scientology drug rehabilitation center. (Pictured in 1991)
The daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was just nine when her father died at the age of 42 of a heart attack, believed to be caused by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.
As a teenager, she rebelled with drugs from ages 13 to 17, but her mother placed her in The Castle, a Scientology center in Hollywood, to get her off drugs.
“I’ve done everything except mushrooms and heroin or crack,” she said.
‘Cocaine, tranquilizers, weed and drinking – all at the same time… I don’t know how I got through it.
‘One day I woke up with a lot of people on the floor. I drove myself to the Church of Scientology and said, “Someone… help me right now.”
It worked for a while, 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 marriage to actor Danny Keough, father of Benjamin and his actress sister Riley, now 35.
Presley suffered cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died later that day at just 54 years old.
Her third marriage, to Nicholas Cage, lasted only three months. Cage had also battled drug addiction during his 20s and famously revealed that he used magic mushrooms with his cat.
In 2006, she married musician Michael Lockwood, and the birth of their twin daughters began her own descent into drug addiction from abusing opioids.
The extent of her problem was laid bare during her painful divorce from Lockwood in 2016 after a decade of marriage.
In a 2017 statement obtained by Radar Online, she admitted to abusing cocaine, opioids, painkillers and alcohol.
Presley suffered cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died later that day at just 54 years old, with an autopsy revealing that she died of a “small bowel obstruction” resulting from recent bariatric surgery.