Riley Keough recalls moment she ‘had a feeling’ mom Lisa Marie Presley had died
Riley Keough is sharing how she sensed her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, had died right at the moment she did.
In a Oct. 11 clip of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Keough opened up about how she had an instinctual feeling about her mother’s death as it happened on Jan. 12, 2023.
“I just had a feeling,” Keough explained of knowing. “I don’t know. There had been incidents before, you know, health incidents, and I didn’t have the same feeling.”
Keough told Drew Barrymore, “I felt this sort of surrender in the moment,” and that she “had a little bit of a sense” that her mom’s life was ending.
She had texted her dad at the time, asking if Presley had died, and he confirmed she had a few minutes prior.
Keough was on Barrymore’s show to promote Presley’s posthumous memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which her late mom began writing and Keough finished.
In the memoir, which came out earlier this month, Keough writes that she hopped on the plane to see her mom after her dad told her Presley was in an ambulance. He said that paramedics believed she had had a heart attack.
While she was in the air, her dad and husband informed her that Presley had been resuscitated and had a pulse.
Keough’s best friend was on the plane with her and told her, “People live through heart attacks all the time.”
“I don’t think she’s going to live through it,” Keough penned was her reply. “I don’t think she wants to.”
Keough wrote that she felt her mother was “between two worlds” at that moment as she balanced between resuscitation and “falling.”
She then closed her eyes on the plane and began speaking with her mother’s spirit.
“If you need to go, go,” she recalled saying. “If you need to stay, stay.”
Her dad then informed her that Presley had gone into cardiac arrest again, and after not hearing immediate updates from her dad, Keough described knowing her mom had died. Shortly after, her dad texted her to confirm the news.
In the memoir, Presley’s health struggles were listed in detail, including her opioid addiction, the cardiac arrest she went into before her death, her uterus removal and her bowel obstruction that eventually caused her death.
“Unusual things kept happening with her health,” Keough wrote. “She developed an infection and had to go to the hospital in November…. Things started cascading. She would constantly complain about her stomach, about feeling nauseated. She would drink lots of Pepto-Bismol, which was always by her bed.
“I could tell my sisters were worried, too—they’d often ask me, ‘Is Mama going to be okay?'”
In the memoir, Keough wrote that there was a “strange energy at the end of 2022.” Presley died in January 2023 at age 54.
