Riley Keough is opening up about what’s publicly unknown about her well-known household’s previous.
The “From Right here to the Nice Unknown” writer opened as much as “Name Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper throughout a brand new Wednesday episode about her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s marriage to the music legend Michael Jackson.
“I feel when she noticed Michael’s life, there have been issues that he had that she did not have,” Keough instructed host Cooper about Jackson’s opulent life with planes and assistants, including “that modified” throughout her mother’s quick marriage to Jackson.
However they have been used to sure elements of fame, based on Keough who defined that “our life wasn’t crazier as a result of that was already there, that already existed, just like the press and the loopy, the paparazzi.”
Keough additionally addressed her mother’s marriage with Jackson, telling Cooper that “the one factor I do know is that they have been in love and that their love for each other was real as a result of I used to be there and I keep in mind. All the things else, I don’t know as a result of I wasn’t there.”
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Earlier than Presley, who died in 2023, and Jackson, who died in 2009, have been married, the “Man within the Mirror” singer confronted allegations of kid sexual abuse. However Keough and Presley by no means mentioned the claims levied in opposition to her ex-stepfather.
“I used to be by no means instructed something. It’s truly not one thing I ever requested as an grownup,” Keough instructed Cooper. “I feel it simply was what it was. I don’t know, it simply by no means got here to thoughts, I assume.”
The daughter of the enduring Elvis Presley married Jackson in 1994 and the 2 break up in 1996.
She continued, discussing her father’s attainable response to the Jackson allegations: “I might think about he mentioned all sort of issues to my mother that we did not find out about … however the best way my mother and father parented was very very like ‘we do not struggle across the children.'” Keough added, “we did not find out about any allegations, we did not know, we had no consciousness of that.”
Keough is the daughter of Presley and musician Danny Keough, who additionally shared Ben Keough who died by suicide in July 2020.
Lisa Marie Presley revealed household secrets and techniques in ebook coauthored with Riley Keough
Presley revealed her household secrets and techniques in a posthumous ebook launched final yr, co-written by Keough.
Within the ebook, she says she introduced Ben dwelling after his suicide in 2020. “I bought so used to him, caring for him and preserving him there” in a 55-degree room, she says.
Lisa Marie and Riley determined to get Ben’s title tattooed on their collarbones and arms, simply as he had theirs tattooed on him. When the artist requested if they’d photographs displaying the place of the ink, what occurred subsequent floored Riley.
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Presley additionally penned about assembly Jackson and their bond, writing that “right here was an power there, one thing about him that was actually outstanding, one thing that I’ve by no means ever seen or felt in my whole life, aside from with my dad. … I fell in love with him as a result of he was regular.”
She additionally evenly addressed these little one molestation allegations: “I by no means noticed a goddamn factor like that. I personally would’ve killed him if I had.”
Contributing: Kim Willis