Lisa Marie Presley Memoir Recap/Discussion: Chapter 7

[shangri__la]

View this post on Instagram


A post shared by Lisa Marie Presley (@lisampresley)

Previous recaps: Chapters 1 & 2 || Chapter 3 || Chapter 4 || Chapter 5 || Chapter 6 (pt one) || Chapter 6 (pt two)

Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir From Here to the Great Unknown was 85% done and spread across 16 tapes when she passed away in January

Comments

[sirena73]

Appreciate your service as always, OP. You put these recaps together so well.

It breaks my heart for all the kids here. They all did the best they could but my god, the fallout. Riley is so fucking strong I can't even imagine the delayed pain she's carrying and had to be the adult so young. I hope she and her sisters have so much love & support around them right now.

[shangri__la]

Thank you 💜💜

The tragic thing was at the funeral, one of the kids had in their eulogy "thank you for trying" or something, they knew how hard their mom struggled and now they have to carry that same trauma she got from her father.

[mad_hatter80]

I had thought for awhile that the codependency btwn Lisa and Ben was worrisome. I often wondered how she would function without having her kids around. Then Ben shot himself and I was like shit! Lisa is not gonna get through this! In the days before her death, when she was at Graceland for Elvis's bday I actually thought she looked good and was happy she was finally getting out again.

I also have to wonder if the allegations she made against Lockwood about the inappropriate pictures of the twins was a way for her to take the focus off her drug addiction so the twins wouldnt be taken from her and given to Lockwood fulltime. Made me think of this when she spoke of having kids with MJ and how they both would fight for custody if they divorced and it would be ugly.

I dont think Danny was ever a drug addict. At least I've never heard that.

[shangri__la]

Danny was in the same Narconon rehab that Lisa attended, although I don't think it was at the same time.

[mad_hatter80]

oh! i didn't know!

[scatterbrain___]

Jesus, poor Riley.

[dragonheart97]

After reading all of this, aside from what everyone else has already said about everything Riley has been through, I am left to wonder how much of this informed her portrayal of Daisy Jones, who was a runaway with a mother that didn't care about her (like Priscilla) and an addict (like Lisa), in Daisy Jones & the Six. I don't remember her really touching on any of this in the promo for DJ&TS, but I can understand why. It will be very interesting when I rewatch now knowing everything revealed Lisa's book.

[shangri__la]

She did touch on the Daisy Jones connection! On the book tour, she said her mom inspired her performance:

“Daisy Jones actually reminded me of my mum a lot - when I read [the script] for the first time, there were so many things [they] had in common,” Keough said.

“Her personality was similar to my mum’s, her life, her writing, not being taken seriously as a writer… So I really think she was a [big] inspiration for that character, and then she sadly never got to see it.”

Keough, 35, said she told her mum that she would enjoy the show while she was filming it, but she sadly died shortly before its release: “I said it was gonna remind her of herself. But she passed away two months before it came out.”

When the show was on, she said this very telling comment about Daisy’s relationship with her mother:

"I didn’t experience it personally, but I’ve seen [that mother-daughter dynamic] with a few people in my life. And it’s totally heartbreaking. Some people are lucky to have mothers that are very nurturing and loving, and some people

[evilyn_1007]

Lisa was going to leave a 14 year old Ben with Riley alone in LA?

I wonder what this book would have been like if Lisa had finished it. I know it says it was 85% done but there is so much of Riley in it. It colors everything with her perspective. What she shares and what she omits.