Lisa Marie Presley’s Memoir Details Why She Kept Her Son Ben Keough’s Body On Dry Ice
Content warning: This nonfiction contains details of kid molestation and inappropriate behavior.
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir details chilling allegations astir her childhood.
In From Here to the Great Unknown, released posthumously—with assistance from daughter Riley Keough—after her January 2023 death, Lisa writes astir however her parent Priscilla Presley’s fellow Michael Edwards allegedly molested her erstwhile she was 10 years old. Priscilla dated the actor, who was successful movies specified arsenic Mommie Dearest and Terminator 2, for astir 7 years.
However, Michael, present 80, told Page Six that nary 1 from the steadfast called him for remark connected the memoir, adding of Lisa’s allegations, “I’m successful shock, that’s untrue…I was similar a begetter to Lisa Marie.”
E! News has reached retired to Michael arsenic good arsenic reps for Priscilla and Riley for remark but has not yet heard back.
Michael, for his part, released his ain memoir successful 1988 titled Priscilla, Elvis and Me, successful which helium elaborate surviving with Priscilla and past 9-year-old Lisa—and of the inappropriate feelings helium developed for Lisa arsenic she grew older.
In 1 instance, Michael elaborate an day successful the excavation with Lisa, successful which astatine 1 constituent Lisa wrapped her legs astir him arsenic helium bounced her up and down.
“I became aroused,” helium writes. “A sick feeling crept dilatory into the pit of my stomach. I was craving Lisa sexually.”
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Eventually, his feelings for Lisa became a constituent of struggle betwixt him and Priscilla, starring to the extremity of their relationship.
“Priscilla's fears had been justified each along,” Michael writes. “My emotion for Lisa ever bordered connected intimacy. As Lisa grew to a young pistillate it was a changeless conflict for maine to support my feelings successful the due perspective.”
He continued, “When Lisa threw her arms astir maine successful a daughterly mode and said, utilizing 1 of her galore favored names for me, ‘Merky, I emotion you. You're truthful cute,’ I melted. She unknowingly exuded the aforesaid powerfulness of intersexual charisma that her begetter had wielded implicit millions.”
But portion Lisa antecedently addressed Michael’s book—in 2003, she told Playboy of the memoir, “He's a sick f--k. He made his attempts astatine coming into my country and being inappropriate portion drunk,”—it wasn’t until penning her ain memoir that she elaborated connected her claims.
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The archetypal lawsuit of Michael allegedly touching Lisa inappropriately, she wrote successful the memoir, occurred erstwhile she was dormant successful furniture and she “woke up to find him connected his knees adjacent to my bed, moving his digit up my limb nether the sheets, and if I moved, helium stopped—so I moved.”
Lisa besides elaborate a 2nd disturbing enactment which allegedly occurred erstwhile she was 10.
“He said helium was going to thatch maine what was going to hap erstwhile I got older,” Lisa wrote. “He was putting his manus connected my thorax and saying a man’s going to interaction here, there, helium enactment his manus betwixt my legs, and helium said they’re going to interaction you here. I deliberation helium mildly kissed maine and past near that night.”
According to Lisa, whose begetter was Elvis Presley, aft telling her parent what had occurred, Priscilla “flew into her country and slammed the door. Eventually she called maine successful and said that Edwards wanted to apologize.”
In his apology, Lisa said, the Mommie Dearest actor cited his clip overseas for the interaction, telling Lisa, “‘I’m truthful sorry, but successful Europe that’s however they thatch the kids truthful that’s what I was doing.'”
Lisa, however, claimed the maltreatment continued.
“Eventually it became that helium would interaction maine and spank me,” she wrote, noting she’d beryllium near with bruises, “telling maine not to look—‘Don’t look astatine me,’ he’d say, ‘don’t crook your head.’ I presume helium was jerking off.”
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