Warning: this article discusses topics like suicide and child abuse which may be upsetting for some readers.
Priscilla Presley has shared a moment from her past when she was not on good terms with her daughter Lisa Marie.
Lisa Marie was the sole daughter of Priscilla and the legendary Elvis Presley.
Elvis passed away in August 1977 at the age of 42, and Lisa Marie also had a premature death at 54 in January 2023.
The Presley family has encountered numerous hardships over the years, beyond the deaths of Elvis and Lisa Marie, and Priscilla, now 80, explores these in her forthcoming memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.
She recounts the heart-wrenching decision to remove Lisa Marie from life support.
“I remember the doctor talking to me. He asked me what I wanted him to do,” Priscilla writes. “They had restarted Lisa’s heart, but there was no guarantee it would keep beating. I asked the doctor, ‘What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?'”
The physician informed Priscilla that her daughter would have “no quality of life at all,” leading her to the painful choice of removing Lisa Marie from the machine.
Additionally, the memoir, which will be available tomorrow (September 23), reveals something Lisa Marie never forgave Priscilla for.
Lisa Marie was the mother of four children: Riley Keough, Benjamin Keough, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood.
Tragically, Benjamin took his own life in 2020.
Lisa Marie had her two younger daughters with Michael Lockwood. After filing for divorce in 2016, she sought full custody of the girls, accusing Lockwood of sexual misconduct and child abuse.
Lockwood’s attorney strongly denied these accusations, and the court’s inquiry found no evidence supporting the claims.
Lisa Marie tried to persuade her mother to sign a deposition supporting her allegations to declare her ex ‘unfit to have custody of the girls’.
“I told her I couldn’t sign it, for I had never seen Michael behave in the harmful ways she was alleging,” Priscilla explained. “Signing it would be perjury.”
For Lisa Marie, her mother’s refusal to sign was seen as a ‘betrayal’, especially since her ex-husband was granted visitation rights.
Reflecting on her choice not to sign, Priscilla mentioned, according to USA Today: “With a stab to my heart that she would never completely forgive me. And she never did.”