Riley Keough says she had an eerie intuition the day her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, died.
Appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” last week, the “Daisy Jones & The Six” actor recalled having “a sense” that Presley had passed on Jan. 12, 2023, even though she wasn’t by her mom’s side as it happened.
“I just had a feeling, I don’t know,” Keough said. “There had been incidents before, you know, health incidents, and I didn’t have the same feeling.
“I felt this sort of surrender in the moment.”
Keough is on a promotional tour for Presley’s posthumous memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown.” Though Presley was still at work on the book at the time of her death, Keough used her mother’s audio recordings to complete it.
Watch a clip of Keough’s “Drew Barrymore Show” interview below.
In the book, Keough shares emotional details about Presley’s death, noting she’d hopped on a plane just as her mom was being transported to a Los Angeles hospital for what paramedics then believed was a heart attack. (A coroner later said a bowel obstruction caused her death.)
According to book excerpts published by NBC and New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Keough already felt as though Presley was “between two worlds” when she heard the news.
“Despite all this love she had inside her, and all her effort to live, we could all see it,” she wrote. “We could all feel it coming.”
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Though “From Here to the Great Unknown” delves into both Presley’s passing and the 2020 death of her son, Benjamin, Keough shrugged off the perception that the memoir is tragic.
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“There’s been a few things that I’ve read that have kind of said, ‘This is the saddest thing I’ve ever read in my life,’ and the experience of living it wasn’t that,” she told Barrymore. “I think that the end of my brother’s life and my mother’s, of course, was devastating, but so much of our lives was so fun and joyful and funny.”
Lisa Marie Presley is now interred at Graceland, the Tennessee estate once owned by her father, music legend Elvis Presley.