Riley Keough hopes to “give voice to my mother” in finishing Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir

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Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir.The memoir, which is due for release on October 8, was partially written by Presley and later finished by her daughter Keough.

You can pre-order your copy here.Keough was asked by her mother to help write the book – titled Here To The Great Unknown – and following her death in 2023, Keough finished telling her mother’s story after listening to tapes she had recorded during the writing process.Presley died at the age of 54 after an emergency admission to the hospital in January 2023.While her death was initially thought to be caused by cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office later confirmed that Presley died from a “sequelae of a small bowel obstruction”, or an intestinal obstruction that constricted blood supply to her digestive tract.In order to finish the book, actress Keough listened to tapes her mother had recorded.Speaking about the process, Keough told People: “Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected.

What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was.“To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatised, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life.

I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.”Speaking about the recordings she listened to, Keough added: “The tapes are an incredible portrait of the force of nature that she was.