The curtain is being lifted on Lisa Marie Presley’s habit struggles.
Within the late star’s posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which her daughter Riley Keough accomplished after her mother’s loss of life at age 54 in 2023, she discusses how she grew to become hooked on prescription painkillers following the 2008 start of her twins Finley and Harper (with ex Michael Lockwood, her husband from 2006 to 2021).
“For a few years it was leisure after which it wasn’t,” Lisa Marie says within the e book, excerpted solely on this week’s PEOPLE cowl story. “It was an absolute matter of habit, withdrawal within the massive leagues.”
Lisa Marie beforehand spoke about her habit to painkillers and opioids within the foreword for Harry Nelson’s 2019 e book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain.
“It’s possible you’ll learn this and surprise how, after dropping individuals near me, I additionally fell prey to opioids,” she wrote. “I used to be recovering after the start of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a health care provider prescribed me opioids for ache. It solely took a short-term prescription of opioids within the hospital for me to really feel the necessity to preserve taking them.”
Dependancy had lengthy been part of Lisa Marie’s life: Her father, Elvis Presley, and her ex-husband Michael Jackson each died of problems from drug use. Lisa Marie has additionally stated she’d experimented with medicine throughout her teen years.
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To complete From Right here to the Nice Unknown, which she had promised Lisa Marie she’d assist write previous to her loss of life, Riley, 35, listened to taped recollections her mother had recorded. Riley says her “mother’s descent into habit” was an “extremely tough” chapter to write down, as have been the chapters about her loss of life and the 2020 suicide loss of life of her brother Benjamin after his personal wrestle with habit.
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Riley says within the introduction of the e book that, at instances, her mother “feels like she desires to burn the world to the bottom; different instances, she shows compassion and empathy — all aspects of the lady who was my mom, every of these strands, stunning and damaged, solid collectively in early trauma, crashing collectively on the finish of her life.”
Via the e book, Riley hopes readers see her mom clearly, maybe for the primary time.
“I hope that in a unprecedented circumstance, individuals relate to a really human expertise of affection, heartbreak, loss, habit and household,” she tells PEOPLE in an e-mail interview. “[My mom] wished to write down a e book within the hopes that somebody may learn her story and relate to her, to know that they’re not alone on the earth. Her hope with this e book was simply human connection. In order that’s mine.”
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From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough comes out Oct. 8 and is accessible for preorder now, wherever books are offered.
