“You are the only people who can get me out of the house. I’m not kidding.” On January 8, Elvis Presley would have been 88 years old. In front of the crowd gathered for the occasion at Graceland, the family mansion located in Memphis, Tennessee, his only daughter Lisa Marie Presley confided that day in a short but poignant speech, tell it DailyMail. Several people present testify to having seen an “incredibly sad” and “hurt” woman.
In a deep voice, the 54-year-old singer and songwriter insisted on thank the fans for comingassuring that his father “would have been proud. This year has been an amazing year. I think the movie [le biopic Elvis réalisé par Baz Luhrmann et sorti en 2022, NDLR] is amazing and I’m very proud of it, I hope you are too. It’s very moving to see you come from all over the world every year.” Lisa Marie Presley has passed away four days later in the hospital with his mother at his bedside, after a cardiac arrest at his home in Calabasas, Los Angeles.
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A life marked by mourning
Orphan of father at only 9 years old, Lisa Marie Presley also had to face the suicide of her son in 2020, Benjamin Keough. Since then, she had become closer to the musician Danny Keough, the father of Benjamin and her daughter Riley, from whom she had divorced in 1994, but with whom she lived until his death. Last August, she wrote an essay on the subject on the occasion of the National Day of Mourning: “I can understand why some people would want to avoid you after such a tragedy. Especially when a parent loses a child, because it really is the worst nightmare.” She was also married for two years to singer Michael Jacksondied of an overdose in 2009. At the Golden Globes ceremony, Lisa Marie Presley was moved to tears with her mother Priscilla at the speech of actor Austin Butler, who received the trophy for best actor in a dramatic film for his role as Elvis in the eponymous film.