Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough speaks about family 'curse' after deaths of mom and brother
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough has claimed that there is no 'curse of the Presleys' after the tragic deaths of her brother and mother in 2020 and 2023 respectively.
On the last stop of her book tour ‘Here to the Great Unknown’ — her late mom Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, Keough reportedly said on stage at the Jerry Moss Theater in Los Angeles, “I get asked a lot on this book tour, ‘How did I avoid the curse of the Presleys?’ And it's such a weird question.”
She then went on to mention, “I think the word ‘curse’ is used because my family are looked at as this not real mythology or something, but really it's just very common things, like addiction,” as reported by Daily Mail.
Riley Keough dreams of an addiction-free future generation
“Everyone in here has loved somebody with addiction issues or has lost somebody tragically. I mean, the hope is that the future generations of our family aren't going to struggle so much with addiction. Of course, that's the dream,” the ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ star shared.
Riley’s singer mother Lisa was 54 when she died on January 12, 2023, because of bowel obstruction. Her death came three years after his son Benjamin Keough, 27, lost his life in July 2020 due to suicide.
Following Lisa’s death and a legal fight with her grandmother Priscilla Presley, the ‘Under the Bridge’ actress has now become the sole heir of her grandfather's iconic home, Graceland.
About the new responsibility, she said, “That wasn't a new thing basically, I would say — but I'd say the attention on it was new.”
“It was something I was very involved in. And my mom was very … if there were things with the estate, whatever we were, I was very involved in it already. So it wasn't like, ‘Whoa, what is this new thing?’ My mom would come to me with everything,” she added.
This came after earlier Riley had noted that her famous mother lost interest in her life after Benjamin’s death.
Lisa Presley got ‘detached’ from life after her son’s death
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she revealed, “The moment my brother died, I was like, ‘This is the end of her.’ They were as close as Elvis was with his mother, and I just couldn't imagine a world where she would make it without him.”
“The last three weeks that she was alive I was with her a few times that I felt worried. I think there was always sort of an undertone for me because of this feeling that I was on borrowed time with her,” she noted.
Riley also asserted, “But there were a couple interactions with her that she just felt detached in a way, a kind of a resignation.”
