Presley opened up concerning the dying of her son Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020, in her posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown.
Lisa Marie Presley went some nice lengths to get matching tattoos together with her late son, Benjamin Keough, after his dying.
In Presley’s posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown, she bought candid concerning the immense grief she skilled after her son died by suicide in 2020 — a sentiment daughter Riley Keough, who helped compile her mom’s memoir, additionally detailed in a brand new interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“She would say, ‘I will die of a damaged coronary heart,’ and I believe we felt that,” Riley informed Winfrey.
Her grief was so all-consuming, in truth, that Presley stored her late son’s physique at dwelling on dry ice for 2 months after he died, even inviting a tattoo artist to see Benjamin so she might might get a duplicate of his tattoos with a purpose to get some matching ink for herself.
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Riley additionally honored Benjamin by getting tats that matched his.
As he had his sister’s title written on his collarbone and his mother’s on his hand, as a tribute, each girls bought Benjamin’s title inscribed on the precise areas — which meant the tattoo artist needed to examine his preserved physique with a purpose to get the “placement precisely proper.”
“He is like, OK, do you might have any images?” Riley recalled the tattoo artist asking. “And he or she was like ‘No, however I can present you.'”
Keough insisted her mother wasn’t “loopy” for letting the tattoo artist examine her late brother’s physique, including that the second was very “matter of reality.”
The Daisy Jones & the Six star mentioned the tattoo artist was fortunately “very regular about the entire thing” and acted professionally regardless of the unusual request.
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It did, nonetheless, make Keough a little bit uncomfortable, with the movie and TV actress telling Winfrey she “stayed quiet” in that second out of respect for her mother.
“But it surely was positively one of the absurd moments [of my life],” Keough admitted.
Sharing extra perception into her choice to maintain Benjamin’s coffin in her dwelling following his dying, Presley wrote within the memoir that she selected to maintain her son’s physique as a result of she could not determine whether or not to bury him in Hawaii — the place she owned a house — or at Graceland, the Memphis property the place her father, Elvis Presley, died and is buried.
“My home has a separate casitas bed room and I stored Ben Ben in there for 2 months. There isn’t a regulation within the state of California that it’s a must to bury somebody instantly,” Presley wrote. “I discovered a really empathetic funeral dwelling proprietor … She mentioned, ‘We’ll convey Ben Ben to you.'”
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The funeral dwelling proprietor instructed Lisa Marie to maintain the room at 55 levels and maintain him on dry ice to protect the physique.
After awhile, the grieving mom “bought so used to him, caring for him and holding him there” that it was now not out of the odd for her.
“I believe it could scare the residing f–king piss out of anyone else to have their son there like that,” she wrote. “However not me.”
Benjamin was finally laid to relaxation at Graceland, subsequent to his grandfather, following a funeral in Malibu.
Presley was later buried there as nicely following her dying in January 2023.
