Lisa Marie Presley’s Heartbreaking Memoir Reveals Raw Details of the Day Elvis Died: ‘I Was Screaming Bloody Murder’

In a deeply moving and candid new memoir released posthumously, Lisa Marie Presley pulls back the curtain on one of the most devastating moments of her life—the day she lost her legendary father, Elvis Presley.
Lisa Marie Presley
From Here to the Great Unknown offers an unfiltered, poignant account of August 16, 1977, when nine-year-old Lisa Marie faced the unimaginable shock of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s sudden death.

 

“I ran to him, but somebody grabbed me, pulled me back. They were trying to work on him,” Lisa Marie recalls with raw honesty. “I was screaming bloody murder. I knew it was not good.” Her vivid description captures the harrowing moment as a young girl grappling with profound grief and confusion.

 

The pain around her was palpable and overwhelming. Lisa Marie recounts the haunting wails of her paternal grandfather, whose anguished cries of “Oh he’s gone. He’s gone” still echo in her memory. Elvis died at age 42 from complications related to drug use—a loss that shattered her childhood and altered the course of her life forever.

 

More than four decades later, Lisa Marie herself passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54, from a bowel obstruction linked to prior bariatric surgery. Before her death, her daughter, actress Riley Keough, vowed to help complete her mother’s memoir. Now finished, the book reveals Lisa Marie not as a mere celebrity heir but as a complex, raw, and deeply human woman.

 

In an exclusive interview with People, Riley described the memoir’s purpose: “Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over, and dissected. What she wanted to do in her memoir… is to reveal the core of who she was.” She remembered Lisa Marie as “the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist,” navigating both profound grief and joy throughout her extraordinary life.

 

The memoir also delves into Lisa Marie’s longstanding fears about her father’s mortality. “I was always worried about my dad dying,” she writes, recalling moments when Elvis seemed “out of it” or passed out. She even penned a poem with the line, “I hope my daddy doesn’t die.”

 

In an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, Riley opens up about her mother’s private struggles to process the loss. “She would listen to his music alone, if she was drunk, and cry… I would walk in her room and she would be sitting on the floor crying, listening to her dad’s music,” Riley shared.

 

From Here to the Great Unknown stands as a powerful testament to the Presley family’s intimate pain, resilience, and enduring love. It offers fans and readers a rare and heartfelt glimpse into Lisa Marie’s journey through loss, healing, and self-discovery.

 

The memoir is now available, inviting all who seek to understand the woman behind the Presley name to hear her story in her own courageous and unvarnished voice.

 

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