Lisa Marie Presley ‘destroyed’ by son’s death as she opens up on ‘unrelenting grip’ of grief

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Lisa Marie Presley has opened up about the ‘unrelenting’ grief she feels since the death of her son, Benjamin.The star, who is the daughter of music icon Elvis Presley, lost her son to suicide in 2020 when he was 27 years of age.Presley also shares daughter Riley, Benjamin’s sister, with ex-husband Danny Keough, and has 13-year-old twin daughters with ex Michael Lockwood.She admits her daughters were the only thing keeping her going after the unspeakable tragedy that befell the family.In order to mark Grief Awareness Day, and to pay tribute to her adored late son, Presley has written a heartfelt and candid essay on the realities of bereavement.The essay, published in People, sees Presley describe living in ‘the horrific reality of [grief’s] unrelenting grips’ in the hopes that speaking about bereavement becomes more normalised.She has learned, she said, that ‘grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life,’ adding: ‘You do not “get over it,” you do not “move on,” period.’The mum-of-four admits she feels like ‘a pariah’ after losing a child, and while she is ‘blaming myself every single day… others will judge and blame [me] too.’She urged anyone going through a similar devastating loss to seek out support groups to feel ‘a little bit less alone,’ as friends and family ‘can and will run for the hills’ in the wake of a tragedy.The star admitted that she knew parents who had lost a child, and she, too, ‘avoided them after and never bothered to follow up with them because they quite literally became a representative of my biggest fear.’Referencing the loss of her own father at the tender age of nine, Presley said she has had ‘more than anyone’s fair share of [grief] in my lifetime.’‘But this one,.