In a little over a week, Lisa Marie Presley‘s posthumous memoir will be hitting bookshelves, and readers can expect to learn some heartbreaking truths about the late star.
Lisa Marie, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died at the age of 54 in January 2023 as the result of a small bowel obstruction. Her daughter Riley Keough has since finished her mom’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which will hit bookstores early next month.
In an excerpt from the book obtained by People, Lisa Marie recalls a vulnerable memory about growing up, revealing, “I was always worried about my dad dying.”
“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.'”
Elvis died at the age of 42 in 1977, when Lisa Marie was only 9 years old.
Also in her pages, Lisa Marie reflects on some of the great memories she had with her dad, including getting to watch the “Suspicious Minds” singer on stage at his shows, which she said was her “favorite thing in the world.”
“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. Usually with [Elvis’ father] Vernon,” she writes.
“Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like. I loved watching him perform. I had certain songs that I liked — ‘Hurt,’ and ‘How Great Thou Art,'” she recalls. “I would ask him to sing those songs for me and he would always say yes.”
Lisa Marie’s memoir was finished by her eldest daughter, the star of Daisy Jones & the Six, who listened to tapes of her mother’s memories.
From Here to the Great Unknown hits bookstores Tuesday, Oct. 8.
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