Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir lifts the veil on how the star mourned the loss of her son Benjamin Keough, keeping the young man’s body in her home for two months.
His sadness was infinite. Lisa Marie Presley was so distraught by the death of her son Benjamin Keough, at age 27, that she kept his body at home for two months, according to her new memoir, which was completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, following his death in 2023.
As indicated in the extract reported this Wednesday by TMZ from her memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown”, Lisa Marie Presley says she fought with all her strength in the aftermath of the tragedy to stay alive for her other children, including her twin daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood, now 16 years old, and that she could not immediately bring herself to say goodbye to her son Benjamin immediately after his death.
While the King’s daughter debated whether to bury Benjamin in Hawaii or Graceland, Tennessee – where Elvis is buried – she kept his body separate from her Calabasas, California, home. Which was made legally possible according to TMZ because “California has no laws requiring immediate burial.”
“It would scare anyone else.”
Lisa Marie said she found a compassionate funeral home owner who brought Ben to her, and she kept him at 12 degrees Celsius in her home to preserve his body.
She confessed that it was quite weird having her son there, explaining: “I think it would scare anyone else to have their son there like that. But not me.” But nothing could have stopped him: “I felt so lucky to have been able to continue taking care of him, to delay a little longer the moment to let him rest in peace,” she said. continued.
Her son Benjamin, who committed suicide in 2020, was eventually buried at Graceland, right next to Elvis, and Lisa Marie is now resting there as well. Three years after Benjamin’s death, Lisa Marie died at the age of 54 from intestinal obstruction, a long-term complication of bariatric surgery, a medical examiner determined. A month before her death, her daughter, actress Riley Keough, told her mother she would help her finish her memoir. The promise is now kept.
In another passage from her memoirs, Lisa Marie Presley mentions in particular her life with Michael Jackson, her husband from 1994 to 1996, and the fact that he was, at 35, still a virgin.
