Lisa Marie Presley wrote about her opioid addiction in her posthumous memoir, “From Right Here To The Nice Unknown.”
In the book, Presley – who died in January 2023 of a small intestine obstruction – explains that she became addicted to painkillers after the birth of her twins in 2008 and was taking an alarming amount of pills a day at the time. stronger from his dependence.
“It went up to eighty pills a day. It took more and more to get high, and honestly, I don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But he decides that at some point,” Presley said. the distinctive daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, wrote.
LISA MARIE PRESLEY HAD SON BENJAMIN’S BODY IN HER HOUSE FOR 2 MONTHS AFTER HER DEATH
Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12, 2023, at the age of 54. (Christophe Polk)
She continued: “I believe we are all born innocent and everyone’s nature is naturally good, but they get screwed by their environment. And I think my brain is different, that I’m addicted. Otherwise, I would have had all those years between the second where I was a stupid teenager and the second where I suddenly started doing drugs at forty. »
Presley explained that she started taking the pills for “recreational” purposes, but it quickly became “a real addiction issue.”
“It went up to eighty pills a day. It took more and more to get high, and honestly, I don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But he decides on that at a given moment. »
-Lisa Marie Presley
“If I had completely run out of medication, the severity of the withdrawal would have left me either in the hospital or dead. My blood pressure would have gone so high,” she wrote.
Presley’s daughter, Riley Keough, was also the author of the posthumous memoir. “My mother had started taking opioids for pain after her C-section, then she started taking them for sleep,” Keough wrote.
Lisa Marie Presley was the distinctive daughter of Priscilla and Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie’s daughter, Riley Keough, is the author of her posthumous memoir. (Éric Charbonneau/Getty Photos for Warner Bros.)
“She was forty years old in February 2008; my sisters were born the same year (I would be twenty the following May),” she continued. “After her brief stint with drugs as a teenager, she never touched them again. She drank, but, as she said, as an adult, she didn’t even take Advil or Tylenol. »
Keough, 35, said her mother often warned her about the risks of drugs.
“Throughout my life, she would often say, ‘If I tried drugs, it would be over for me.’ I see now that this was a very strong allusion to an addiction problem that she had an instinct for,” she wrote.
Lisa Marie Presley died in January 2023 at age 54. (Chris Delmas/AFP through Getty Photos)
“I think it was unconscious, but it was stalking her. She had kept him with Scientology, with raising children, with marriages, with spirituality. But it was there, like a shadow, all the time. She said: “My father was forty-two years old when he died. I’m thirty-nine….’ »
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Keough added: “We could never have imagined that this would be something that would happen to him so violently, so late in his life. »
After being hospitalized for her addiction, Presley was sent to a court-ordered rehabilitation center in Los Angeles. Keough explained that she was in the process of being “weaned off” opioids with medications like “Suboxone, Seroquel and Gabapentin.”
Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley at a 2022 screening of “Elvis.” (Éric Charbonneau/Getty Photos for Warner Bros.)
Keough wrote that while her mother was in rehab, she decided to have weight loss surgery because “her whole life she had been bullied for being fat.”
“The surgery was something she had always wanted,” she noted.
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“It was a strange time to decide to have surgery, as a detox remedy. She wasn’t finished with her program. I remember worrying that this was a way to keep me on the medication for a little longer. I didn’t feel like she was ready to do it. be sober,” Keough wrote.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley welcomed their child together in 1968. (Getty Photos)
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In January 2023, Presley died from a small bowel obstruction, which is a long-term complication of bariatric surgery. She was 54 years old.
Janelle Ash is an entertainment editor for Fox Information Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected].
