"It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues" WARNING: This article includes mentions of addiction and substance abuse The late Lisa Marie Presley has posthumously revealed in her upcoming memoir that she had developed an addiction to opioids after giving birth. READ MORE: Sofia Coppola on baring Elvis’ ugly side in ‘Priscilla’: “I never wanted him to be a villain” In an excerpt of the upcoming memoir – titled Here To The Great Unknown – shared with PEOPLE , a portion of the book sees Presley writing about being addicted to subscription painkillers following the births of her twins Harper and Finley Lockwood in 2008. “For a couple of years it was recreational and then it wasn’t.
It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues. You may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, I also fell prey to opioids I was recovering after the birth of my daughters, [Harper] Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids for pain. It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them.
” Riley Keough (L) and Lisa Marie Presley (R) – CREDIT: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for ELLE Presley continued: “Even in recent years, I have seen too many people I loved struggle with addiction and die tragically from this epidemic. It is time for us to say goodbye to shame about addiction. We have to stop blaming and judging ourselves and the people aroun.