Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous book: striking revelations

The cause of Lisa Marie Presley's death was an intestinal obstruction. It had been caused by adhesions that arose after a stomach reduction surgery that the singer had undergone years earlier. The Los Angeles County coroner revealed this sad conclusion more than six months after the star's death.

The death of Lisa Marie Presley left open countless questions that she tried to answer in her book 'From Here to the Great Unknown.' Thanks to the fact that her daughter, the successful actress and producer Riley Keough, completed the manuscript, we can now read Lisa Marie's entire story.

In her book 'From Here to the Great Unknown', released in 2024, Lisa Marie Presley made several revelations about her family life. For example, she revealed that following the death of her son Benjamin, who took his life at age 27 in 2020, she kept his body at home for two months in a temperature-controlled room of 55 degrees. She explained in the posthumous memoir that this allowed her "to have time to say goodbye".

According to People magazine, Lisa Marie compared her son's death to that of her father, Elvis Presley. She recalled how, as a little girl, she was able to spend time with Elvis' body before his burial at Graceland in 1977, allowing her to process her grief. Repeating this process with Benjamin was incredibly helpful for her, the famous mother claimed in her memoir.

According to The Guardian, one of the reasons Lisa Marie delayed her son's burial was uncertainty about where to bury him. She couldn't decide whether to take him to Hawaii or bury him at Graceland next to Elvis.

Lisa Marie praised a funeral director for helping her keep Benjamin's body for two months. According to The Sun, she explained that, in California, there is no law requiring someone to be buried immediately. As the funeral home helped her with this process, she got to have more time with her son's body.

Before burying Benjamin, Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley decided to get tattoos in his honor. According to Page Six, they invited a tattoo artist to replicate some of Benjamin's tattoos, including his sister's name on his collarbone and his mother's name on his hand.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Riley wrote that, after getting the tattoos, they felt Benjamin's presence. Her mother felt him saying to her, "This is crazy, Mom, what are you doing?"

The famous mother was candid about her struggle with opioid addiction. According to The New York Times, she explained how this battle began after the birth of her twin girls and affected both her personal and professional life.

In her book, Lisa Marie offered an intimate insight into her relationship with her mother, Priscilla. According to US Weekly, she detailed the ups and downs of their bond, especially following Benjamin's death.

In her musical career, Lisa Marie was always in the shadow of her father's legacy. According to Rolling Stone, she tried to forge her own path, although she could never completely escape comparisons to Elvis. It also put her in the public eye from an early age, which affected her emotional well-being and desire for privacy.

In her book, Lisa Marie detailed her marriages to Michael Jackson, Danny Keough, Nicolas Cage, and Michael Lockwood. According to People, she reflected on how each of these marriages influenced her personal growth. In this photo, we see her with Danny Keough.

Lisa Marie also gave some new details about her marriage to Michael Jackson. According to E! News, she explained that she was 25 while Jackson was 35 and that Michael was the virgin of the two. "I think he had kissed Tatum O'Neal, and he'd had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn't been physical apart from a kiss." His inexperience and other challenges, both public and private, led to the collapse of their relationship.

Lisa Marie's marriage to Nicolas Cage was brief but intense. According to Entertainment Weekly, she described the relationship as an "emotional roller coaster" that ended in less than a year. Although People reported that Cage had only married her because she was the daughter of his idol, Elvis, Cage clarified in an interview with Barbara Walters in March 2003 that there was more than that. He said there was "a sense, a logic" in marrying the singer-songwriter, given that they both came from famous and artistic families.

Lisa Marie was the sole heir to Graceland and maintained the place as a sanctuary. According to Vanity Fair, she expressed her deep attachment to the place, both as a memorial to her father and as a personal refuge.

Especially important in the book are Lisa Marie's reflections on what it meant to be a mother of four. She described motherhood as one of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of her life.

Follow Showbizz Daily to see the best photo galleries every day