- Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her posthumous memoir that she felt undesirable by her mother, Priscilla Presley.
- Lisa Marie mentioned that Priscilla “did not have nice maternal instincts.”
- Their relationship was tense after Elvis Presley died in 1977.
Lisa Marie Presley wrote in a brand new posthumous memoir about feeling undesirable by her mother, Priscilla Presley.
Lisa Marie, who died in 2023, wrote about their strained relationship in “From Right here to the Nice Unknown,” launched Tuesday. The memoir was cowritten by her daughter, Riley Keough.
In her memoir, Lisa Marie mentioned that her mother “thought of attempting to fall off her horse to trigger a miscarriage.”
“She did not need to acquire being pregnant weight,” Lisa Marie wrote. “She thought that would not be search for her as Elvis’ spouse. There have been so many ladies after him, all of them stunning. She needed his undivided consideration.”
Lisa Marie continued: “She was so upset that she was pregnant that originally she’d solely eat apples and eggs and by no means gained a lot weight. I used to be a ache in her ass instantly and I all the time felt she did not need me.”
Priscilla and Elvis Presley bought married in 1967 and welcomed their first and solely youngster collectively, daughter Lisa Marie, the next 12 months. Priscilla was 22 when she gave beginning.
Priscilla went by with the being pregnant, however Lisa Marie mentioned that her mother “did not have nice maternal instincts.”
“That may be what’s fallacious with me,” Lisa Marie mentioned.
Priscilla Presley didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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Lisa Marie mentioned after Elvis died, she felt ‘caught’ along with her mom
Priscilla and Elvis broke up when Lisa Marie was 4 years outdated. In her memoir, Lisa Marie wrote that her dad and mom “did a implausible job sustaining a united entrance and an actual friendship bond” afterward.
“There was nonetheless a number of love between them, they usually actually placed on entrance for me,” she mentioned. “I used to be very fortunate.”
Lisa Marie mentioned that, looking back, one factor she was sure of as a baby was that she was beloved by her dad. After Elvis’ demise in 1977, when Lisa Marie was 9 years outdated, Priscilla went to Graceland to be along with her — which the kid dreaded.
“I heard my mom was coming for me. That was the worst. It felt like an invasion — Graceland was my place with my dad, and I did not need her there,” Lisa Marie mentioned. “She was going to wreck the entire vibe.”
Lisa Marie added she felt “caught” along with her mother after Elvis’ demise. Wheras Elvis spoiled Lisa, Priscilla was strict along with her. Lisa Marie additionally mentioned that her mother tried her finest as a mum or dad, particularly when she went by a rebellious part.
“She was attempting to determine issues out and develop up, too, and I gave her a genuinely laborious time,” Lisa Marie mentioned.
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Keough writes that Lisa Marie and Priscilla’s relationship improved later in life
Though Priscilla and Lisa Marie weren’t significantly shut, Keough mentioned that the duo put apart their previous “in order that Priscilla could possibly be a grandmother for us youngsters.”
Keough mentioned that earlier than Lisa Marie’s 2006 marriage to Michael Lockwood, which lasted 10 years, her mother “reassessed” her relationship with Priscilla, they usually “grew nearer.” Lisa even wrote the 2005 music “Raven” in honor of Priscilla.
“My mother needed to forgive her,” Keough wrote. “And she or he needed to personal her half of their troublesome relationship.”
Riley mentioned Lisa and Priscilla had been even “thick as thieves for a minute.”
“They had been all the time laughing and laughing and having enjoyable and getting drunk collectively, consistently as much as no good,” Riley mentioned.
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Following Lisa Marie’s demise in January 2023, her household grew to become embroiled in a authorized battle over Graceland, the property she solely inherited from Elvis on her twenty fifth birthday in 1993.
Initially, Riley and her half-sisters Harper and Finley Lockwood inherited the property. A courtroom submitting mentioned that in 2016, Lisa Marie had eliminated Priscilla and her former enterprise supervisor, Barry Siegel, as co-trustees of her residing belief. They had been changed by Riley and her brother Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020. Priscilla then filed a petition questioning “the authenticity and validity” of the modification to the belief.
A settlement settlement between Priscilla and Riley was reached later that 12 months. By January 2024, Priscilla and Riley put this authorized historical past apart to attend the Emmys collectively, the place Riley was nominated for excellent actress in a restricted collection or a film for her position in “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
Riley additionally took on the duty of finishing Lisa Marie’s e-book after she died. In response to Web page Six, Lisa Marie’s e-book deal was estimated to be between $3 and 4 million. Since its launch earlier this week, “From Right here to the Nice Unknown” has develop into an Amazon bestseller and Oprah Winfrey’s newest choice for her e-book membership.
