Presley opened up concerning the loss of life of her son Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020, in her posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown.
Lisa Marie Presley went some nice lengths to get matching tattoos along with her late son, Benjamin Keough, after his loss of life.
In Presley’s posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown, she acquired candid concerning the immense grief she skilled after her son died by suicide in 2020 — a sentiment daughter Riley Keough, who helped compile her mom’s memoir, additionally detailed in a brand new interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“She would say, ‘I will die of a damaged coronary heart,’ and I believe we felt that,” Riley instructed Winfrey.
Her grief was so all-consuming, actually, that Presley stored her late son’s physique at residence on dry ice for 2 months after he died, even inviting a tattoo artist to see Benjamin so she may may get a duplicate of his tattoos with the intention to get some matching ink for herself.
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Riley additionally honored Benjamin by getting tats that matched his.
As he had his sister’s identify written on his collarbone and his mother’s on his hand, as a tribute, each girls acquired Benjamin’s identify inscribed on the precise areas — which meant the tattoo artist needed to examine his preserved physique with the intention to get the “placement precisely proper.”
“He is like, OK, do you’ve any pictures?” Riley recalled the tattoo artist asking. “And she or he was like ‘No, however I can present you.'”
Keough insisted her mother wasn’t “loopy” for letting the tattoo artist examine her late brother’s physique, including that the second was very “matter of truth.”
The Daisy Jones & the Six star stated the tattoo artist was fortunately “very regular about the entire thing” and acted professionally regardless of the unusual request.
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It did, nevertheless, make Keough somewhat uncomfortable, with the movie and TV actress telling Winfrey she “stayed quiet” in that second out of respect for her mother.
“Nevertheless it was undoubtedly one of the crucial absurd moments [of my life],” Keough admitted.
Sharing extra perception into her choice to maintain Benjamin’s coffin in her residence following his loss of life, Presley wrote within the memoir that she selected to maintain her son’s physique as a result of she could not resolve whether or not to bury him in Hawaii — the place she owned a house — or at Graceland, the Memphis property the place her father, Elvis Presley, died and is buried.
“My home has a separate casitas bed room and I stored Ben Ben in there for 2 months. There isn’t a legislation within the state of California that you must bury somebody instantly,” Presley wrote. “I discovered a really empathetic funeral residence proprietor … She stated, ‘We’ll carry Ben Ben to you.'”
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The funeral residence proprietor instructed Lisa Marie to maintain the room at 55 levels and maintain him on dry ice to protect the physique.
After awhile, the grieving mom “acquired so used to him, caring for him and preserving him there” that it was now not out of the unusual for her.
“I believe it could scare the dwelling f–king piss out of anyone else to have their son there like that,” she wrote. “However not me.”
Benjamin was finally laid to relaxation at Graceland, subsequent to his grandfather, following a funeral in Malibu.
Presley was later buried there as effectively following her loss of life in January 2023.
