Priscilla Presley details taking Lisa Marie off…
Priscilla Presley is wanting back on her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s tragic death.
While selling her upcoming memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,” Priscilla, 80, told People about the choice to take Lisa Marie off life help in Jan. 2023.
“It was the second saddest day of my life, other than losing Elvis,” Priscilla shared. “It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that Lisa was gone.”
Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley at the 14th Annual Americana Music Festival and Conference in Nashville in Sept. 2013. Rick Diamond
Lisa Marie was Priscilla and the late Elvis Presley’s only baby. The 54-year-old died of a small bowel obstruction that developed after she underwent bariatric surgical procedure years earlier.
Priscilla recalled that Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Danny Keough, discovered her unresponsive at home and called Priscilla to come meet them at the hospital.
Priscilla Presley attends “An Evening with Priscilla Presley” in Las Vegas in Nov. 2024. Getty Images
Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley at the Elvis 68 Comeback Special premiere in 2008. WireImage
“We were there all day long,” Priscilla told People. “Lisa really wasn’t breathing, so she was on the ventilator. For hours we were there waiting, hoping and praying until the doctor came in and said, ‘Priscilla, I’m so sorry, she’s gone.””
“We just couldn’t believe it — didn’t want to believe it,” the “Naked Gun” actress continued. “It was hard on all of us, it still is.”
Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley in LA in June 2022. Steve Cohn/Shutterstock
Priscilla has skilled other tragedies in her well-known household. Her grandson, Lisa Marie and Danny’s son Benjamin Keough, died by suicide at age 27 in 2020. Priscilla has also helped her 38-year-old son Navarone Garibaldi, whom she shares with ex Marco Garibaldi, get clean from drug dependancy.
“It hasn’t been easy at all. But you have to find strength,” Priscilla told People, including that Navarone is at present sober and in a “good place.”
Priscilla also shared that she’s discovered pleasure being a great-grandmother to granddaughter Riley Keough’s two youngsters that she shares with husband Ben Smith-Petersen.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley with daughter Lisa Marie in Feb. 1968. Bettmann Archive
Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley at the “Elvis” premiere in Memphis in June 2022. Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock
Priscilla Presley and her son Navarone at Last Chance for Animals’ fortieth Anniversary Gala in LA in Oct. 2024. Variety via Getty Images
In People’s excerpt from her memoir, out Sept. 23, Priscilla recalled that Lisa Marie “was already gone” when she rushed to see her daughter at the hospital.
“She was hooked to a machine that was breathing for her, and she had a heartbeat,” Priscilla recalled. “There was little brain activity. Her spirit, always so vital, wasn’t there. Riley later told us that while she was still on her flight, she had felt her mother’s spirit pass. But none of us was ready to give up yet.”
Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley at Graceland Mansion in Memphis in 2006. AFP via Getty Images
Priscilla said a nurse satisfied her to get one thing to eat and drink in another room, where her cousin Ivy comforted her. But then, they “heard an emergency alarm” coming from Lisa Marie’s room.
“It was a code blue; Lisa’s heart had stopped,” Priscilla remembered. “As I started back to my daughter, the nurse detained Ivy and spoke to her in a whisper. Nodding toward me, she told Ivy, ‘Come with us. I need you to stand right behind her. She’s going to fall, and you will need to catch her.’”
Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley at the annual Black and White Ball fund-raising event in Las Vegas in 2011. WireImage
Priscilla and Elvis Presley with daughter Lisa Marie. WireImage
Priscilla said after a doctor told her Lisa Marie would have “no quality of life at all” if they stored her on life help, she thought about her “wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life” and made the devastating resolution to pull the plug.
“It was unbearable. I began to sob,” Priscilla recalled. “I don’t remember falling. I know that Ivy caught me. After that, everything went dark. I can’t remember. I don’t want to remember.”
Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley attend the American Society of Young Musicians’ thirteenth Annual Spring Concert Awards in 2005. Getty Images
Last month, Priscilla’s former business companions filed a lawsuit accusing her of pulling Lisa Marie’s life help to “control” her daughter’s trust and Graceland. They’re suing Priscilla for breach of contract and fraud and are in search of $50 million.
In response, Priscilla’s lawyer, Marty Singer, slammed the submitting as “one of the most shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless” lawsuits he had ever seen.
“Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis” comes out Sept. 23.
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