Priscilla Presley Tells All About Late Daughter Lisa Marie in New Book: The Most Shocking Revelations

There’s nothing soft about Priscilla Presley’s new memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis! The King’s ex, 80, doesn’t hold back, particularly when it comes to delving into the life of her late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.

Her are the most shocking revelations from the tell-all tome!

Lisa Marie Was “a Little Terror”

Spoiled rotten at Graceland, Lisa Marie threw her weight around, threatening to have staffers fired if they balked at any of her demands, no matter how outrageous! “She was a little terror,” writes Priscilla. “Elvis didn’t follow up on her threats to fire the staff; he apparently thought it was cute.” When confronted about the “importance of giving our daughter guidelines and values,” Elvis replied, “The hell with values. Let the kid have fun.” Priscilla adds, “The good-cop/bad-cop contrast in the way Elvis and I parented Lisa affected my relationship with my daughter.”

Lisa Marie Did Sleep with Jacko

Priscilla reveals she was “appalled by the marriage” between Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson: “I asked her if they had a physical relationship. Like so many people, I wasn’t sure. She said yeah. There was a pause, and then she said, ‘But I hardly ever see him, Mom.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, you hardly ever see him?’ ‘I don’t see him. He’ll come for a couple of days, and then he leaves again. I don’t know where he goes.’ ‘Do you ask him where he’s going?’ ‘Yeah. He just says he’ll be back in a couple of days.’”

The Day Elvis Died

After Elvis died early at age 42 on Aug. 16, 1977, at Graceland, his fiancée, Ginger Alden, found the body, and the King’s assistant and bodyguard, Joe Esposito, told Priscilla that Lisa Marie had seen her dad’s body. Priscilla writes, “Elvis was still face down on the floor when she saw him, his face buried in the shag carpet. Lisa had been afraid he was suffocating. Joe wasn’t sure if she’d understood what she was seeing.” Later, Priscilla adds, “Lisa stayed with Elvis’s body as much as she could. She didn’t want to leave him.”

Lisa Marie Kept Her Son on Ice

When Lisa Marie’s son, Ben Keough, committed suicide, she “found out that there was no law in California against keeping a body at home as long as certain health requirements were met,” Priscilla writes. Ben’s body was stored in a room kept at 55 degrees, and “He was kept in a coffin filled with dry ice. Lisa spent most of her time with him. She couldn’t bear to let him go … Ben’s body remained at home with Lisa for another two and a half months, until Lisa felt he no longer wanted to be there.” Ben was buried near Elvis at Graceland.

Pulling the Plug

Collapsing at home, Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She was on life support, and Priscilla confides, “I asked the doctor, ‘What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?’ He looked at me with compassion and shook his head. ‘No quality of life at all.’ I thought about my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life. I said what I had to. ‘Take her off the machine, Doctor.’ I like to believe that her son and her father were there to see her over. I need to believe that my girl is not alone.”

Lisa Marie’s Molestation Mystery

In her posthumous 2024 memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie claimed she was molested by her mom’s boyfriend Michael Edwards for years while he was living with them. “It was the first time I had heard her say that he sexually abused her,” writes Priscilla. “The graphic descriptions stunned me. But her revelation didn’t make sense to me, either. She had told me something completely different at the time … I couldn’t understand why she had never told any of us. I struggle to make peace with Lisa’s words.” In his 1988 tell-all, Priscilla, Elvis and Me, Edwards writes he “craved Lisa [Marie] sexually” when she was a teenager, but he did not admit to molesting her.