Lisa Marie Presley was ‘always worried’ about Elvis Presley dying
Lisa Marie Presley was “always worried” about her father Elvis Presley dying.
In her posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, the singer and only child of Elvis opened up about her fears for her father’s health.
“I was always worried about my dad dying,” Lisa Marie wrote in an extract obtained by People. “Sometimes I’d see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die.'”
Lisa Marie was just nine years old when the music legend died in 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, which was widely believed to be brought on by drug use.
Elsewhere in the memoir – which was completed by her daughter Riley Keough after she died in January 2023, aged 54 – the singer said she was “so proud” of The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
“Going to his shows was my favorite thing in the world,” she shared. “I was so proud of him. He would take me by the hand and bring me out onstage, then get walked to wherever his place was on the stage, and I would be taken from him and brought to wherever I was going to be sitting in the audience.”
Lisa Marie went on to recall the “electricity” of the Jailhouse Rock singer’s concerts.
“There’s nothing I’ve felt that’s been even close to that feeling, ever,” she gushed. “Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like. I loved watching him perform.”
The late musician added that she used to ask her dad to play her favourite songs, including 1976’s Hurt and 1967’s How Great Thou Art.
“I would ask him to sing those songs for me and he would always say yes,” she remembered.
From Here to the Great Unknown will be released on 8 October.
