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Riley Keough Tells Oprah About Lisa Marie Presley’s Tough Final Years — and the Lengths Her Mother Went to in Processing Grief: ‘I Can See How This Sounds Insane’
In a special, Riley Keough told Oprah Winfrey about completing the memoir by her mother, and the struggles Lisa Marie Presley had toward the end.
Among the revelations that were arising Tuesday, with the release of the book and the prime-time event, were just how deep Lisa Marie Presley was into grief in her final two years, although she seemed to have overcome a drug addiction, even as her health failed. As recounted in the special, Lisa Marie kept Ben’s body around for two months after he passed, unable to decide whether to have him buried at Graceland or Hawaii, but also feeling that she could better process her grief by having his presence remain in the house for an extended period, even in death. “On paper, I could see how this sounds completely insane and absurd,” Keough said, “but my mom was just very much herself… You know, she wasn’t a crazy lady.” She compared her mother’s way of taking longer to process death as more akin to what happens in non-Western societies — while acknowledging that it seemed bizarre when she considered it through others’ eyes… which she had occasion to do when a visitor came to the house.
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