By Léa Mabilon
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In her posthumous memoirs, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January 2023, looks back on a tragic episode that occurred in the last chapter of her life: the suicide of her son Benjamin Keough, then aged 27.
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir goes behind the scenes of her life, in every detail, both happy and tragic. Died on January 12, 2023, at the age of 54, the only child of Elvis Presley had never revealed these texts, raw and captivating, finally published this October 8 by his daughter, Riley Keough, under the title of From Here to the Great Unknown. She returns in particular to the suicide of her son, Benjamin Keough. Aged 27, the young father shot himself in the head in 2020, while suffering from heavy drug use. Lisa Marie Presley, in shock, reveals in her posthumous autobiography how she preserved the body of her late son for two months; plunging him into dry ice in a 12.7 degree room, itself located in his Los Angeles home.
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“There is no law in the State of California that requires someone to be buried immediately.”we read in his book. And to continue: “I got so used to him and took care of him and kept him there. I think it would scare anyone to have their son there like that. But not me. I felt so lucky that there was a way to take care of him and postpone the deadline for a while. So that I can be at peace with the idea of burying him.” An act that she absolutely does not regret. “I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five”she concludes on this chapter.
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Near his own
Nearly three months after the death of her son, Lisa Marie Presley finally resigned herself to burying her son at Graceland, Memphis (Tennessee), next to her grandfather, Elvis Presley. “Benjamin Storm Presley Keough was buried in the Garden Meditation at Graceland with his family, including his grandfather, Elvis Presley, his great-grandmother, Gladys Presley, his great-grandfather, Vernon Presley and her great-great-grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley,” the family said in a statement.
Note that Lisa Marie Presley was the mother of Benjamin and the actress Riley Keough (35 years old), from her union with Danny Keough, but also that of the twins Finley and Harper (16 years old), born from her marriage to Michael Lockwood.