Riley Keoughis remembering the final time she saw her mother, the lateLisa Marie Presley.
Presleydied two days later at 54, from complications ofa small bowel obstruction.
“We had dinner,” Keough recalled.
Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley in 2017.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
“That was the last time I saw her.
I remember thinking about how beautiful she looked, and that was my strongest memory of the dinner.”
“Parts of me have died and I’ve felt like my heart has exploded,” she said.
“But I also feel…
I’m trying to think of how to phrase this…
I have strengthened the qualities that have come about through adversity.”
I think that would be my summary because I’m her daughter.
She was the best mom."
In processing her grief, Keough found it helpful to focus on her career.
“I find it triggering when people say happiness is a choice,” she said.
I started trying to move through it and not let it take me out."
“Everything felt like the carpet had been ripped out and the floor had melted from under us.
We are a family, but there’s also a huge business side of our family.
So I think that there was clarity that needed to be had.”
It’s very important to her.
He was the love of her life.
That’s her whole life."
“None of that stuff has really ever been a part of our relationship prior,” she said.
“She’s just been my grandma.”
