Why theCelebrity Memoir Book ClubHosts Found Lisa Marie Presley's Memoir 'Stressful'

Mar. 15, 2025

Elvis Presley and Lisa Marie Presley.Photo:Getty(2)

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Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley.Magma Agency/WireImage

“Unless you knew or understood him, that sounds terrible, I know,” Lisa Marie wrote. “You might think he was crazy, carrying a piece with his daughter sitting next to him, but he was just from the South. It was just really funny.”

For readers who didn’t know the King of Pop, though, anecdotes like that one hit a little differently.“I think that that was what was so stressful about this book, is reading this with no processing,” Hamilton said. “I get when you’re a kid being like, ‘How funny is it that my dad just has a gun on him while we’re on a rollercoaster?’”

The singerdied due to cardiac arrhythmia, and had numerous health problems later in life, including mild diabetes and hypertension. In the memoir, Lisa Marie recalled another incident in which she had friends over at Graceland and went to check on her father. She found Elvis facedown in the bathroom after a fall, and her friends had to help him up.“She and her friends would be hanging out in her room, and then her dad would come to the door and they’d see him about to topple over,” Hamilton said.

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Parker added that she felt Lisa Marie “took a lot of pride” in the fact that she was “super aware” of what her father was experiencing.“She’s constantly on the lookout for her dad,” Hamilton added. “She takes a lot of pride in being the person who, like, has a connection with him, where she can tell when he’s in distress and get to him as quickly as possible.”

“I was always worried about my dad dying,” Lisa Marie wrote in the book. “Sometimes I’d see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die.'”

Riley Keough (left) and Lisa Marie Presley in 2012.John Sciulli/WireImage

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“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family,” Keoughtold PEOPLE in an email interviewfor an Oct. 7 print cover story. “[My mom] wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, to know that they’re not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that’s mine.”

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