“I was always worried about my dad dying,” Lisa Marie says in her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown. **”Sometimes I’d see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die.'”**
Elsewhere in the memoir, which the star’s daughter Riley Keough completed by listening to tapes of memories her mother left behind after her death at age 54 in 2023, Lisa Marie describes what it was like watching her dad onstage as a kid.
“Going to his shows was my favorite thing in the world,” she says. “I was so proud of him. He would take me by the hand and bring me out onstage, then get walked to wherever his place was on the stage, and I would be taken from him and brought to wherever I was going to be sitting in the audience. Usually with [Elvis’ father] Vernon.”
**”The electricity of those shows. There’s nothing I’ve felt that’s been even close to that feeling, ever,” she continues. “Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like.** I loved watching him perform. I had certain songs that I liked — ‘Hurt,’ and ‘How Great Thou Art.’ I would ask him to sing those songs for me and he would always say yes.”
Years after Elvis’ death, Lisa Marie abused drugs as a rebellious teenager. She later found stability for many years after she married her first husband Danny Keough and gave birth to Riley at 21.
“I fell in love with being a mom. I realized I had been called to care for something else,” Lisa Marie writes in the book.
She divorced Danny in 1994, though the memoir details how he stayed an anchor for her and their children.
**”My father was always my mom’s greatest protector and best friend,” Riley tells PEOPLE in an email interview. “I think their relationship was incredibly unique, and I’m so grateful to have been a witness to the unconditional love they had for one another.”**
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“I was always worried about my dad dying,” Lisa Marie says in her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown. **”Sometimes I’d see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die.'”**
Elsewhere in the memoir, which the star’s daughter Riley Keough completed by listening to tapes of memories her mother left behind after her death at age 54 in 2023, Lisa Marie describes what it was like watching her dad onstage as a kid.
“Going to his shows was my favorite thing in the world,” she says. “I was so proud of him. He would take me by the hand and bring me out onstage, then get walked to wherever his place was on the stage, and I would be taken from him and brought to wherever I was going to be sitting in the audience. Usually with [Elvis’ father] Vernon.”
**”The electricity of those shows. There’s nothing I’ve felt that’s been even close to that feeling, ever,” she continues. “Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like.** I loved watching him perform. I had certain songs that I liked — ‘Hurt,’ and ‘How Great Thou Art.’ I would ask him to sing those songs for me and he would always say yes.”
Years after Elvis’ death, Lisa Marie abused drugs as a rebellious teenager. She later found stability for many years after she married her first husband Danny Keough and gave birth to Riley at 21.
“I fell in love with being a mom. I realized I had been called to care for something else,” Lisa Marie writes in the book.
She divorced Danny in 1994, though the memoir details how he stayed an anchor for her and their children.
**”My father was always my mom’s greatest protector and best friend,” Riley tells PEOPLE in an email interview. “I think their relationship was incredibly unique, and I’m so grateful to have been a witness to the unconditional love they had for one another.”**
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