Riley Keough is reflecting on her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s temporary however passionate marriage to Michael Jackson.
The “Billie Jean” singer was Keough’s stepfather from the time he married Presley in Could 1994 to their divorce in August 1996. In a brand new interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Daisy Jones & the Six star, 35, stated their romance was real love.
“The one factor I do know is that they have been in love and that their love for each other was real,” she informed host Alex Cooper. “As a result of I used to be there and I keep in mind. All the things else I don’t know as a result of I wasn’t there for.”
Keough added that regardless of Jackson’s large fame, life at dwelling didn’t essentially get any extra hectic when the Grammy winner got here into the image — as a substitute, her world “bought larger.”
“Our life wasn’t crazier as a result of that already existed.. However I feel when [Presley] noticed Michael’s life, there have been issues that he had that she didn’t have,” Keough recalled. “Like, she didn’t have a aircraft on the time, issues like that… And so our life in that means form of bought larger. As a result of earlier than that, she was with my dad and their life was quite simple… Like, she didn’t have 10 million assistants and she or he didn’t want all of that. And I feel that modified.”
Presley married the actress’s father Danny Keough in 1988, and revealed in her posthumous memoir From Right here to the Nice Unknown, which was printed in October together with her daughter’s assist, that she left him for Jackson after the star professed his love on a visit to Las Vegas.
“Michael stated,’ I don’t know for those who’ve seen, however I’m fully in love with you. I would like us to get married and so that you can have my youngsters,’” Presley wrote in her memoir. “I didn’t say something instantly, however then I stated, ‘I’m actually flattered, I can’t even speak.’ By then, I felt I used to be in love with him too.”
Keough stated on Name Her Daddy that the extraordinary scrutiny on her mother’s new marriage usually led to them having to close down shops for privateness, and recalled a visit to London during which she and her youthful brother Benjamin — who died in 2020 — had a toy retailer to themselves.
The actress — who additionally revealed that she and her brother “had no consciousness” of the sexual abuse allegations plaguing Jackson — added that when Presley ended relationships, together with her marriage to Jackson, it might significantly upset her.
“When she would break up with folks, Michael, her different companions, I’d cry,” Keough recalled. “I’d get mad at her. I used to be actually upset… I’d be pissed, not understanding what occurred.”
Presley died in January 2023 at age 54 of a small bowel obstruction, whereas Jackson died of cardiac arrest in 2009 at age 50.
Presley praised the star in From Right here to the Nice Unknown as a “nice conversationalist” who was “tremendous enthusiastic about folks and will actually carry them up.” She additionally revealed that he was a virgin once they first bought collectively.
“There was one thing about him that was really exceptional, one thing I’ve by no means, ever seen in my complete life, besides my dad [Elvis Presley],” she wrote. “I fell in love with him as a result of he was regular.”