Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough addresses ‘family curse’ after tragic death of mom and brother https://t.co/DOWBVs09A4
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At the final, Los Angeles stop of Riley Keough’s book tour for From Here to the Great Unknown — her late mom Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, which Keough finished after her sudden death last year — Keough, 35, addressed the so-called “curse,” a title assigned to the perceived misfortune that has plagued the famous family.
“I get asked a lot on this book tour, ‘How did I avoid the curse of the Presleys?’ And it’s such a weird question,” the granddaughter of Elvis Presley told moderator and fellow author Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones and the Six) at the November 18th event.
“It’s “weird,” the Daisy Jones & The Six star explained, because “I think the word ‘curse’ is used because my family are looked at as this not real mythology or something, but really it’s just very common things, like addiction.”
“Everyone in here has loved somebody with addiction issues or has lost somebody tragically,” she continued. “I mean, the hope is that the future generations of our family aren’t going to struggle so much with addiction. Of course, that’s the dream.”
Keough had previously revealed on the book tour that her twin sisters, now sixteen, are doing well and she and her father Danny moved to be closer to the girls. All four, according to Keough, now live five minutes away from each other and are very close.
The event was a Daisy Jones reunion, with Sam Claflin also sitting front row at the event. Reid and Keough talked at length about the memoir and Daisy Jones, with Reid revealing she was the first to read and critique the first draft of the book, and Keough saying her parents Lisa Marie and Danny Keough were the real life Daisy and Billy (the Michael Jackson fans have been totally normal about this).
Following the death of her mom in January 2023 and a highly publicized legal back-and-forth with her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, Keough became the sole heir of her grandfather’s iconic home, Graceland.
After Jenkins Reid asked what it’s like to step into this new role, Keough joked that it’s “fun” before revealing that it’s not as daunting as it seems, because she was actually already “very involved” in the affairs of the iconic residence.
“There was a lot of attention on it and me, but prior to that, it was something I was very involved in,” she continued. “And my mom was very …if there were things with the estate, whatever we were, I was very involved in it already. So it wasn’t like, ‘Whoa, what is this new thing?’ My mom would come to me with everything.”
Her involvement, Keough clarified, began when she was in her 20s, noting that Lisa Marie often sought her help and “opinions on things.”
“So there was that awareness and it was something that I was familiar with,” she explained. “That wasn’t a new thing basically, I would say — but I’d say the attention on it was new.”
