Presley opened up in regards to the dying of her son Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020, in her posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown.
Lisa Marie Presley went some nice lengths to get matching tattoos along with her late son, Benjamin Keough, after his dying.
In Presley’s posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown, she acquired candid in regards to the immense grief she skilled after her son died by suicide in 2020 — a sentiment daughter Riley Keough, who helped compile her mom’s memoir, additionally detailed in a brand new interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“She would say, ‘I’ll die of a damaged coronary heart,’ and I feel we felt that,” Riley informed Winfrey.
Her grief was so all-consuming, the truth is, that Presley saved her late son’s physique at dwelling on dry ice for 2 months after he died, even inviting a tattoo artist to see Benjamin so she may may get a reproduction of his tattoos with a purpose to get some matching ink for herself.
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Riley additionally honored Benjamin by getting tats that matched his.
As he had his sister’s title written on his collarbone and his mother’s on his hand, as a tribute, each girls acquired Benjamin’s title inscribed on the precise areas — which meant the tattoo artist needed to examine his preserved physique with a purpose to get the “placement precisely proper.”
“He is like, OK, do you’ve got any photographs?” Riley recalled the tattoo artist asking. “And she or he was like ‘No, however I can present you.'”
Keough insisted her mother wasn’t “loopy” for letting the tattoo artist examine her late brother’s physique, including that the second was very “matter of reality.”
The Daisy Jones & the Six star mentioned the tattoo artist was fortunately “very regular about the entire thing” and acted professionally regardless of the unusual request.
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It did, nonetheless, make Keough somewhat uncomfortable, with the movie and TV actress telling Winfrey she “stayed quiet” in that second out of respect for her mother.
“Nevertheless it was undoubtedly one of the absurd moments [of my life],” Keough admitted.
Sharing extra perception into her choice to maintain Benjamin’s coffin in her dwelling following his dying, Presley wrote within the memoir that she selected to maintain her son’s physique as a result of she could not resolve whether or not to bury him in Hawaii — the place she owned a house — or at Graceland, the Memphis property the place her father, Elvis Presley, died and is buried.
“My home has a separate casitas bed room and I saved Ben Ben in there for 2 months. There is no such thing as a legislation within the state of California that you need to bury somebody instantly,” Presley wrote. “I discovered a really empathetic funeral dwelling proprietor … She mentioned, ‘We’ll convey Ben Ben to you.'”
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The funeral dwelling proprietor instructed Lisa Marie to maintain the room at 55 levels and hold him on dry ice to protect the physique.
After awhile, the grieving mom “acquired so used to him, caring for him and holding him there” that it was not out of the peculiar for her.
“I feel it might scare the dwelling f–king piss out of anyone else to have their son there like that,” she wrote. “However not me.”
Benjamin was in the end laid to relaxation at Graceland, subsequent to his grandfather, following a funeral in Malibu.
Presley was later buried there as effectively following her dying in January 2023.
