Riley Keough reveals what REALLY killed mother Lisa Marie Presley at just 54

It’s been almost two years since Lisa Marie Presley passed away. Her daughter Riley Keough opens up about her mother’s death.

Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough, recently announced the release of the memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which she co-wrote with her mother before her death.

While doing press for the book, which is due out October 8, Keough revealed what she believes was the real cause of her mother’s death.

Lisa Marie went into cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home on January 12, 2023, and died later that day at the age of 54. An autopsy revealed she died of a “small bowel obstruction” resulting from recent bariatric surgery.

However, Keough said in a new interview with People that her mother really died of a broken heart, after Riley’s brother Benjamin committed suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.

During the press conference for the book, which is due out on October 8, Keough revealed what she believes to be the true cause of her mother’s death

“My mother tried her best to find strength for me and my younger sisters after Ben passed, but we knew how much pain she was in,” said Keough, 35.

“My mother died physically from complications of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart,” she said.

Lisa Marie admitted in 2022 that she would never move on after her son’s death. Riley says in her memoir that she and Lisa Marie did that by helping others.

“A child wrote to Riley and said, ‘I didn’t kill myself last night because of what you said it would do to my family and those left behind. So thank you.’ That helped me. That lifted me up,” Lisa Marie wrote in the memoir.

Riley added that Nick Cave’s 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling also helped immensely, calling it “a truly beautiful portrait of grief.”

Riley had promised Lisa Marie she would help write her memoir, but after her mother passed away in January 2023, she listened to taped recordings of her mother.

She admitted that her brother’s death was “incredibly difficult to write about, as was my mother’s descent into addiction. And her own death, of course.”

Riley had promised Lisa Marie she would help write the memoir, but after her mother died in January 2023, she listened to taped recordings of her mother

“My mother died physically from the aftermath of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart,” she said

“I hope that people can relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family in an extraordinary circumstance,” Keough says

Riley admits that her mother’s story isn’t “all about sadness.”

“I hope that people in an extraordinary situation can recognize a very human experience of love, grief, loss, addiction and family,” Keough says.

‘[My mom] “I wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, so they know they are not alone in the world,” she added.

“Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that’s mine,” Keough said.