Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir is a reminder that grief works in mysterious ways.
“So [Presley] kept him in our house for a while on dry ice.”
“I found a very empathic funeral home owner.
Benjamin Keough and Lisa Marie Presley in 2012.Copetti/Photofab/Shutterstock
She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you.
it’s possible for you to have him there.'”
“That was part of why it took so long,” she explains.
Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, and Benjamin Keough in 2010.Lance Murphey/EPA/Shutterstock
“But I got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there.
But not me.”
Instead, Presley offered to show him the tattoo itself.
You’ve never met this guy before.
Do not bring him into that room with my dead brother,'" Riley writes.
“I knew she understood my look, but she plowed ahead.”
Soon after, the family decided it was finally time to bury Benjamin.
“‘Guys,’ he seemed to be saying, ‘this is getting weird.’
What the f—!'”
Riley describes it as “the most brutalizing day of my life.”
When I’d open them, I could barely see through tears."
Three years after her son’s death, Presley was hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest.
She died hours later, at 54.
One year later, Rileyannounced plans to fulfill a promise to her motherby completing her long-gestating memoir.
The book was released Tuesday.
