Lisa Marie Presley struggled with the loss of her only son, Benjamin Keough, and was willing to join him eventually. She went as far as keeping his body in her cold bedroom for two months and got matching tattoos with him during that period.
Psychologist Dr. Gilda Carle said she acted in denial within those months and took care of her deceased child like he was still with her. According to her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, it was not until his body appeared to protest against being kept, that she took him to be interred at Graceland estate.
Lisa Marie Presley blamed herself for Benjamin Keough’s suicide
Benjamin had voiced out his frustrations and suicidal thoughts to Lisa Marie weeks before he took his life, and the late singer blamed herself every day for his passing. She felt guilty for not preventing him and carried on this pain until her last breath in January 2023.
Despite the eerie occurrences in the room that housed Benjamin’s body, it was not until his father, Danny Keough, convinced Lisa Marie that she agreed to bury him. Those around her, including Benjamin’s older sister Riley Keough, testified that Lisa Marie’s final acceptance of the loss was a drastic decline in her will to live.
Lisa Marie could feel her late son speaking to her
Riley revealed in the new memoir that Lisa Marie often claimed to hear Benjamin’s voice, just like she felt her father, Elvis Presley, visit her for years after his demise. According to Lisa Marie, Elvis did not stop appearing to her in dreams until she birthed Benjamin in 1992.
Aside from the bowel obstruction that led to her death last year, other factors, including depression, mental challenges, and drug addiction, were also contributory factors.Riley wrote that her mother died of a broken heart, and not just the aftermath of her weight-loss surgery from years before.
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