The actress, who helps finish Elvis Presley's only child's unfinished book, voices her excitement and hope for readers to 'love my mom as much as I did' through the memoir.
- Jan 12, 2024
AceShowbiz - Lisa Marie Presley's unfinished memoir is set to be published in the autumn. The late singer, who is the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, died almost exactly a year ago at age 54, and was working on her autobiography at the time of her passing, which a coroner's investigation found was the result of complications from bariatric surgery years earlier. Lisa's book is currently untitled and has been finished with the help of the eldest of the late singer's children, 34-year-old actress Riley Keough.
Riley said in a statement released on Thursday, January 11 by publisher Random House, "Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis' daughter. I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one." The statement added, "I'm so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did."
Riley spent hours listening to tapes her mother had made in preparation for finishing her life story. An announcement from Random House about the project added, "Riley knew that it was time for Lisa Marie's voice to be heard. She listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs at Graceland, just the two of them, a sanctuary from the chaos of her life."
"About Lisa Marie's complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla. About growing up with the clicking cameras perpetually at the door. About her own wild love stories, and her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. About motherhood and the shattering loss of her son, Riley's brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide," it continued.
Random House is billing the upcoming book a "raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir," which it says will feature Riley "filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother." The book is scheduled for release on October 15 and an audio edition will also be read by Riley.
Lisa was buried on the grounds of the Graceland family estate in Memphis, Tennessee, where she had been the day her dad Elvis died in 1977 aged 42 after years of prescription drug abuse.
