Riley Keough’s Husband Ben Smith-Petersen Reads Her Note to ‘Mama’ Lisa Marie Presley at Memorial
usmagazine.comIn memoriam. During Lisa Marie Presley’s memorial service, son-in-law Ben Smith-Petersen shared a tribute from his wife, Riley Keough.“A letter to my Mama,” the 31-year-old stuntman — who married the 33-year-old Zola actress in 2015 — said during the Sunday, January 22, service, reading Keough’s note aloud. “Thank you for being my mother in this life.
I am eternally grateful to have spent 33 years with you. I’m certain I chose the best mother for me in this world and I knew that as far back as I can remember you.”He continued: “I remember everything.
I remember you giving me baths as a baby, I remember you driving me in my car seat listening to Aretha Franklin. I remember the way you’d cuddle me when I’d come into your bed at night and the way you smelled. … I remember you singing me and my brother [Benjamin Keough] lullabies at night and how you’d lay with us until you fell asleep.
I remember how it felt to be loved by the most loving mother I’ve ever known.”Presley — who died on January 12 at the age of 54 — shared Riley and Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020, with ex-husband Danny Keough.
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