Lisa Marie Presley Reveals She Kept Late Son’s Body In Her House For 2 Months

Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir was released on October 8

In the years leading up to her death, Lisa Marie Presley began writing her life story. Sadly, she passed away before she was ever able to finish it.

Lisa Marie Presley passed away on January 12, 2023, from a small bowel obstruction caused by a bariatric surgery she had undergone. Her death came just two days after she made her last public appearance, at the 2023 Golden Globes, where Austin Butler took home the Best Actor Award for portraying her father, Elvis Presley, in the biopic Elvis.

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In January, Lisa Marie’s eldest daughter, actress Riley Keough, revealed she would be finishing what her mom started.

Alongside a photo of Riley and her mom from her childhood, she wrote, “I’m honored to help put my mother’s book out for her. Her autobiography will be out in October with Random House and you can preorder it now.”

In June, the book title and cover were revealed. The memoir is titled From Here To The Great Unknown, and the book cover is a photo of Lisa Marie as a child sitting with her father, whose face is only half shown.

Riley will also begin an accompanying book tour for the memoir on October 9th.

Keough shared some excerpts from the book with People Magazine.

One of the excerpts explains one of Lisa Marie’s grieving processes after her son, Benjamin Keough, took his own life in 2020.

Riley explains in the book that after Ben’s death, her mom kept her brother’s body on dry ice in her home for two months in a “separate casitas bedroom in their home in Los Angeles.” The room he was kept in after his death had to be set at 55 degrees.

Lisa Marie defended herself, writing, “There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.”

She also revealed that her father’s body was left in the home after he passed away and she was able to spend some time with him before he was buried.

“Having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him,” she wrote.

Riley explained that it was “really important” for Lisa Marie to “have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad.”

Lisa said that one of the reasons Ben was in her home for two months because she couldn’t decided where to bury him, Hawaii or Graceland. Ultimately, she decided on Graceland. And now, she is buried beside him.

“That was part of why it took so long,” she wrote. “I got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there. I think it would scare the living f—ing piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me. I felt so fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest.”

The moment where Lisa Marie was finally ready to lay her son to rest came after she brought a tattoo artist to her house to have his name tattooed on her and Riley in the same spots that Ben had their names tattooed on him.

Of the experience, Riley writes, “We all got this vibe from my brother that he didn’t want his body in this house anymore. ‘Guys,’ he seemed to be saying, ‘This is getting weird.’ Even my mom said that she could feel him talking to her, saying, ‘This is insane, Mom, what are you doing? What the f—!'”

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