Followers of Elvis Presley — and his well-known household — are getting a uncooked look into their lives in a posthumous memoir titled, “From Right here to the Nice Unknown,” co-written by Lisa Marie Presley and her daughter, Riley Keough.
Oprah Winfrey revealed the memoir as her latest e book membership choice on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. The e book untangles the sophisticated lifetime of Lisa Marie, together with tales about rising up in Graceland, grieving the demise of her father Elvis and navigating motherhood.
“Studying the e book, it does really feel like a tragedy. However I believe that it’s actually necessary for me to do not forget that there was a lot pleasure and love and simply fantastic instances in our lives,” Keough mentioned throughout an interview on “CBS Mornings.”
Learn an excerpt from the memoir, “From Right here to the Nice Unknown,” which is on sale now.
There was this one time—I wish to say it was throughout certainly one of his excursions, in Tahoe. He would all the time take the entire prime flooring of no matter lodge he was in, for him and the entourage. That night time he was again in his bed room, actually, actually offended, cursing and screaming. Someone informed me to get behind a chair in the principle suite and never transfer. Everybody was making an attempt to cover behind one thing, to remain out of the fucking means. So I hid and watched as he took issues by the handful, by the armful, and threw them off the balcony. He had discovered his flight path and he was going to fly it till he was executed throwing stuff off that balcony.
Finally, he calmed down, and somebody mentioned to me, “It’s okay, you’ll be able to come out now, he needs to see you.”
I believed, He needs to see me?
I mentioned, “Why was he so mad?”
“Effectively,” somebody mentioned, “he ran out of water.”
So, I grabbed 4 bottles of water and I walked into his room.
“Someone informed me you didn’t have any water,” I mentioned, and he simply motioned for me to come back give him a hug.
He was respectful, although—he wasn’t impolite to individuals, he wasn’t an offended individual, he didn’t dwell there. Some individuals full-on dwell in destruction, others purchase some actual property and stroll round in anger for a short while. My dad would simply go to.
Typically my dad would take me to an amusement park in Memphis referred to as Libertyland, and he would shut it down for me and all of the entourage and their households and pals. He and I might experience on the curler coasters. I liked it.
One in every of my dad’s visits to anger got here one time after we have been presupposed to go to Libertyland. I had invited all my pals, however once I went upstairs the night time earlier than, I may hear the flawed type of tone—this baritone sound, the flawed type of depth. I went to my room and will hear loud crashing sounds. He was yelling his fucking head off at someone. I may hear him saying that we weren’t going to Libertyland the following day. I used to be devastated.
I came upon later that he had run out of one thing once more, and he wanted to get it earlier than we went—both that or they wouldn’t give it to him. So, he hit the roof and referred to as about ten totally different docs and nurses till he discovered somebody who would give him a repair. As soon as the nurse or physician had administered no matter it was he wanted, he was advantageous. And we went to Libertyland.
I keep in mind sitting subsequent to him on the curler coaster that day—the Zippin Pippin—conserving one eye forward on the experience, and the opposite on his gun in his holster, which was on my facet. Until you knew or understood him, that sounds horrible, I do know. You may assume he was loopy, carrying a chunk together with his daughter sitting subsequent to him, however he was simply from the South. It was simply actually humorous.
So we rode and rode.
That was a few week earlier than he died.
From the e book: FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. Copyright © 2024 by Riley Keough. Printed by Random Home, an imprint and division of Penguin Random Home LLC. All rights reserved.