Lisa Marie Presley is mostly known for being the daughter of Elvis Presley, or being the wife of Michael Jackson, but who is she as a person? There is so much more to her than being the daughter of Elvis. She’s has had a long line of trauma, but is strong and misunderstood. Lisa and Elvis had a strong bond just like he did with his mother Gladys. Gladys loved her son so much she drank herself to death worrying about him while away and Lisa and Elvis had the same relationship. When Gladys died, it broke Elvis and put him in a bad mental state, and Lisa Marie was left the same way.
Lisa loved being at Graceland and being with her father. From a young age she had a difficult relationship with her mother Pricilla but she didn’t care she knew that her father loved her dearly and was devoted to give her the best life she deserved. Even with Elvis being the most famous person at the time, he gave himself to Lisa as much as he possibly could. Lisa knew he loved her and that’s all she needed to be happy. She dreaded the days going back to her mother knowing that she was a pain since the day she was born. Pricilla told Lisa Marie herself that she thought of purposely falling off her horse to cause a miscarriage because she didn’t want to gain weight. Being Elvis Presley’s wife was more important to her, she was jealous of all of the women that threw themself at Elvis.
She wanted all his attention to be on her. When Elvis started falling a down spiral and becoming more unhealthy, she noticed. Lisa was afraid of her father dying she knew he was slowly fading away. In Lisa Marie’s book with her daughter Riley Keough “From Here To The Great Unknown” Lisa talks about the memory when her and her father were sitting in her room watching television, she told her father “Daddy, please don’t go anywhere. Please don’t die.” and he replied with “I’m not going anywhere.” In the last moths of Elvis’s life I think Lisa always knew that something tragic was coming and that something was going to happen to her father. She was protective of her father and she loved him more than anything in this world. When Elvis died Lisa’s life came crumbling down and that brought a lot of trauma to a little girl, so much so that her whole life was affected by it. She never got over the death of her father.
Lisa is not only broke, but she was a great artist and only ever got viewed as Elvis’s daughter. Lisa wanted to be her own person not and not live up the expectations of her father. Lisa loved the fame and making music, but what she didn’t like was everyone expecting her to play her fathers music. It’s not that she was ashamed of it, but because it was too much for her. Elvis’ music brought back a lot of memories. It especially hurt her when Elvis impersonators would show up at her concerts. I don’t think anyone would enjoy it though, seeing someone dress up as your dead father. Lisa was very talented and had great potential in life. She could never listen to her fathers music, except when she was drinking. Her daughter would find her on the floor drunk listening to her fathers music. We don’t know all the things she’s been through or how they affected her.
Lisa Marie wasn’t only a good singer and performer, but she was a great mother. She gave herself to her kids and made sure she was the one who was raising them and not a nanny or a maid. She became the mother she didn’t have. She did go to a bad place the last years of her life like her father, and it didn’t help when her son Benjamin Keough took his own life. Ben and Lisa had a close relationship just like her and Elvis. Lisa loved her son more than anything, and so did her son. Ben hated seeing her mother in pain, and it mentally and physically it broke him.
In memory of Lisa Marie Presley
