Riley Keough has revealed intimate details about her mother Lisa Marie Presley 's grief over Elvis Presley 's death, in a new television special with Oprah Winfrey . The 35-year-old Daisy Jones & the Six star spoke candidly about witnessing her mother's private mourning rituals for Elvis , who died in 1977. "Her grief was very.
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I don't think she knew how to process it," Keough said, after being "moved to tears" over her mother's tape recordings . Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough tackles ghosts of the past in Lisa Marie's book Graceland foreclosure documents are 'forged' says expert as Riley fights battle "It was a very private thing for her. She would listen to his music alone, if she was drunk, and cry.
" Keough recalled finding her mother in an emotional state while listening to Elvis's music. "Yes, I would walk in her room and she had speakers — because this was back in the day — and she would be sitting on the floor crying and she'd listen to her dad's music," she said. The interview is part of An Oprah Special: The Presleys — Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley, airing October 8 on CBS and streaming on Paramount.
Keough also discussed completing her mother's memoir following Lisa Marie's unexpected death in 2023 at age 54. "Because my mother was Elvis Presley's daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected," Keough wrote in an email interview with PEOPLE magazine. "What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I've done in finishin.
