Riley Keough Fulfills Her Mother Lisa Marie’s Final Wish 

Elvis Presley’s only child, Lisa Marie, passed away at the age of 54 due to complications from bariatric surgery. A mere three months before her passing, she asked her daughter, Riley Keough, to help her complete her memoir.

After Lisa Marie’s death in January 2023, her daughter fulfilled her mother’s wish. From Here to the Great Unknown was released on October 8th, 2024, with the book being described on Amazon as an: 

“Extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mother and daughter communicating—from this world to the one beyond—as they try to heal each other.”

The poetic description describes the book and its content perfectly. Lisa Marie and Riley did not hold back in sharing the complicated life of Elvis Presley’s only child. The book shares Lisa Marie’s memory of her father’s death, her marriage to Michael Jackson, and her struggles with addiction in her later years. 

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Lisa Marie’s Addiction

Lisa Marie’s addiction issues were never a secret from the public. However, the book goes into detail about the severity.

Elvis Presley’s daughter began taking opioids to manage the pain from her C-section for her now sixteen-year-old twin daughters. Then, according to the book, “she progressed to taking them to sleep.” 

Her opioid addiction was surprising to those who knew and loved Lisa Marie because she would refrain from taking Advil or Tylenol, which are minor painkillers.

The addiction escalated to a point where Lisa Marie said she was taking “80 pills a day” because “It took more and more to get high.”  Marie refers to her drug use as being “recreational” at the beginning until it one day became the addiction that it was. In her own words:

“It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues,” she writes. “I just wanted to check out. It was too painful to be sober.”

Lisa Marie was eventually hospitalized for the addiction, where she then went to court-ordered rehab. During that time, she decided to get bariatric surgery, which eventually led to her untimely death. She finally kicked the addiction after a seizure and a second stint of rehab.

Riley Keough Tells All On Oprah 

During an extended interview with Oprah, Riley opened up about her mother’s life and death. She said: 

“I think having two family members who have passed away, a lot of that time and grief has been spent wondering about where they are, and I think that the perspective that I choose to have is that they’re on to a sort of new adventure.”

This is a touching sentiment for the family after the heartbreaking losses they have endured. Watch a clip from Riley’s Oprah interview below.