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Riley Keough Opened Up to Oprah About Grief and Family
In a one-hour CBS special shot at Graceland.
One anecdote from the book that’s already making headlines is that Presley kept Benjamin’s corpse on dry ice for two months, at one point even showing it to a tattoo artist. Keough said that while leaning into “a close proximity to death” during the grieving process might not be as common in western cultures, she thinks that approach “resonated” with her mother, who found comfort in being near Benjamin’s body after he died. Keough told Oprah that the memoir’s title is a reference to the lyrics of a “beautiful” song that her mother recorded as a duet with Elvis after his death.
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