Keough talked with the news in New York on the day of the book’s publication to talk about her life tale, From Here to the Great Unknown, which is rife with pain, addiction, loss, and sadness.
The soft-spoken 35-year-old actress Keough said on Tuesday, “It made me emotional that she was sharing it with the world because it was a story that she felt very protective of.”
Lisa Marie Presley describes in her memoir the emotional toll that the death of her famous father, at the age of nine, had on her.
She remembers feeling something was off when she first woke up on the afternoon of his death in August 1977, going into her father’s room across the corridor, and seeing him facedown on the bathroom floor.
EPE, Inc. Frank Carroll took this November 1970 family portrait of Lisa Marie, then two years old, and Elvis in their Hillcrest, Los Angeles, home. She’s giggling and staring right at him. Her blond hair is pulled back into pigtails, and she is wearing a polka-dot shirt with a picture of a mushroom on it in red, blue, and white. Elvis is wearing a brilliant blue suit; he is holding a cigar, has a large ring on his pinky finger, and is wearing sunglasses. He’s grinning and glancing directly at her.EPE.
