Lisa Marie Presley struggled very badly to come to terms with the death of her son Benjamin Keough… so, before she could decide on his final resting place, she bought some more time with him by storing his body in her home for two months after his passing.
Whoa… The late singer’s posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown officially dropped on Tuesday. Shared within it are some absolutely devastating details about her struggle to cope with Benjamin’s death.
As you’ll recall, Ben sadly died by suicide back in 2020 at just 27 years old. And according to Lisa, she didn’t know whether to lay him to rest in Graceland or in Hawaii — so she preserved his body in her California home to give herself some time to mull it over. Related: Riley Keough Reveals The Most Heartbreaking Take On Mom Lisa’s Death In the book, she wrote: OMG!
The Storm & Grace singer noted that she kept the room at a cool 55 degrees to help preserve his body. All the while, she wrote that she “got used to” his presence and “caring for him and keeping him there.” At one point, she even had a tattoo artist come in so she and her daughter (and Ben’s sister) Riley Keough could get tattoos that matched his.
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