A posthumous memoir written by Lisa Marie Presley is bringing new particulars on how the late musician handled the 2020 dying of her son, Benjamin Keough, to mild.
In “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Presley stated she saved Benjamin Keough’s physique on dry ice for 2 months at her Los Angeles house after he died by suicide at age 27.
“My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months,” Presley wrote within the e book, in keeping with NBC Information. “There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.”
She additionally shared that her household took an analogous method whereas grieving the 1977 dying of her father, music legend Elvis Presley.
“I found a very empathic funeral home owner. I told her that 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. “She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you. You can have him there.’”
“I think it would scare the living fucking piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that,” she continued. “But not me.”
Lisa Marie Presley was nonetheless at work on “From Here to the Great Unknown” when she died final 12 months at age 54. The e book is co-authored by her daughter, actor Riley Keough, who used audio recordings left behind by her mom to complete it.
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The “Mad Max: Fury Road” star wrote within the e book that her mother’s choice to maintain her brother’s physique at house gave the household “ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad.”
“And I would go and sit in there with him,” Keough added.
Nevertheless, the turning level, she stated, got here when each she and her mom determined to get tattoos that had been much like one which Benjamin Keough had on his collarbone. With a purpose to preserve the designs constant, Presley invited the tattoo artist to her house to see her son’s tattoos up shut.
“I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” Riley Keough wrote. “Soon after that, we all kind of got this vibe from my brother that he didn’t want his body in this house anymore.”
Each Benjamin Keough and Lisa Marie Presley are actually interred at Graceland, Elvis Presley’s property in Memphis, Tennessee.
“From Here to the Great Unknown,” which was printed Monday, incorporates quite a few different putting revelations about Lisa Marie Presley’s life. Elsewhere within the e book, she delved into her choice to marry Michael Jackson in 1994. She claimed the King of Pop, who was then 35, advised her that he was a virgin earlier than their marriage ceremony.
“I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal, and he’d had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn’t been physical apart from a kiss,” she wrote.
