In her new posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley recounted the heartbreaking moment she found father Elvis Presley dead.
She shared the 1977 experience in the book, which was completed by her 35-year-old daughter Riley Keough, and described the realization that she was now “stuck” with mother Priscilla Presley.
Elvis succumbed to a heart attack at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 16, 1977, when his first-born child was just nine years old.
When her father was buried, she wrote: “That was the first time I really felt the loss – obviously from my father’s passing, but most of all I felt like I was stuck with this woman,” she wrote in reference to her mother. , now 79.
‘It was a one-two punch. He’s dead and now I’m stuck with her,” she added.
After her death in January 2023, Lisa Marie left behind hours of recordings that Riley incorporated into the literary work, which was published on Tuesday.
In her new posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley recounted the heartbreaking moment she found father Elvis Presley dead; the late star pictured in January 2023
She shared the 1977 experience in the book, which was completed by her 35-year-old daughter Riley Keough, and described the realization that she was now “stuck” with mother Priscilla Presley; Lisa Marie and her parents pictured in 1970
Lisa Marie, Elvis and Priscilla’s only child together, recalled that something was wrong the morning her father died.
She ran to her father’s room, where she was stopped by the artist’s road manager and friend Joe Esposito.
“Your father is sick,” he told her before she ran into his bathroom, where an unconscious Elvis lay on the floor.
“I tried to run towards him, but someone grabbed me and pulled me back,” she wrote.
Presley was 42 years old and had been using opiates for years.
The mother of four, who gave birth to son Benjamin and twin daughters Finley and Harper alongside Riley, wrote: “There were so many times when I found him on the floor or unable to properly control his body. It was the barbiturates.”
Describing the harrowing scene on her father’s last morning, she wrote: “They stood over him, moving him and trying to work on him.
‘I screamed bloody murder. I knew it wasn’t good. Then I was taken out of the room.’
After her death in January 2023, Lisa Marie left behind hours of recordings that Riley adapted into the literary work, which was published on Tuesday.
Paramedics tried to revive him and she wrote: ‘I started screaming that I wanted him, that I needed him, and I started kicking and hitting anyone who stopped me, trying to get away from them, but they wouldn’t let me. to go.’
She confessed that she was glad not to see his face because she thought it would have traumatized her even more.
Lisa Marie smoked a cigarette with the niece of Presley’s friend Ginger Alden.
And then her grandfather Vernon Presley wailed, “Your father is gone, he is gone! My son is gone!’
Elvis and Priscilla admire their newborn daughter in February 1968
Riley was close to her mother; pictured in June 2022
Left with one parent, Lisa Marie would have a tumultuous relationship with her mother.
And she confessed that she pushed Priscilla to send her to multiple schools and turn to the Church of Scientology because her behavior was unmanageable.
While she was alive, Riley noted that Mom never “got over” the loss of Elvis.
“I was sure she was heartbroken all my life. “I remember being a little bit angry at Elvis for leaving my mother and causing all this pain,” the actress wrote.