Lisa Marie Presley stored her lifeless son on dry ice for 2 months earlier than lastly arranging his funeral, a brand new memoir has revealed.
Presley, the one baby of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, stored her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at dwelling together with her moderately than retaining him on the morgue after he died by suicide in 2020.
In keeping with a memoir began by Presley and completed by her daughter, actress Riley Keough, 35, Benjamin was stored on dry ice as California has no legal guidelines mandating when a physique must be disposed.
Daisy Jones & the Six actress Keough, mentioned: “It was actually necessary for my mother to have ample time to say goodbye to him, the identical approach she’d achieved together with her dad.
Presley wrote: “I think it would scare the living f***ing p**s out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.”
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The memoir goes on to recall how Presley and her daughter determined to get a tattoo which matched Benjamin’s as his physique lay in a room at 55C.
“Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at the body of her dead son, which happened to be right next to us in the casitas. I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” Keough wrote.
