The tragic life of Lisa Marie Presley: drugs, the suicide of a son and four failed marriages – La Tercera

During this Thursday’s day, the family of Lisa Marie Presleythe only daughter of the king of rock’n’roll, Elvis Presleyconfirmed that He died at the age of 54 in a Los Angeles hospital.California, after suffering a heart attack.

Your death not only caused a stir in the world of show because she was the direct descendant of the author of “Can’t Help Falling In Love”but also, because he built his own career in the music industry.

In it, he published a total of three studio albums. The first, titled To Whom it May Concern (2003), it quickly positioned itself as a commercial success in fifth place on the Billboard list in the United States, while in addition to launching the following now what (2005) and Storm & Grace (2012), sang a song for the soundtrack of the zombie series the walking dead, “People”which today is one of the most remembered by its fans.

But despite the fact that his name is more than recognized throughout the world, Presley had a difficult life, in which he had to deal with an intense addiction to drugs, the breakdown of four failed marriages and the death of one of his children. , who committed suicide at the age of 27.

One of his darkest memories was August 16, 1977, when he was just nine years old. That day, she peeked out of the bathroom of his father’s mansion, located in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. Just four years earlier, he and his mother had divorced.

Looking inward, he entered a state of shock: he saw him lying on the floor, completely immobile, because a heart attack had caused his death.

This experience marked his later experiences.

Already as an adult, she began a strong addiction to drug use, specifically to tranquilizers and opiates, to the point where she had a relapse in 2019, in front of which her mother, Priscilla Presley, even asked members of Scientology —a cult that has been widely criticized— to help her overcome her substance dependency.

He also went through a total of four marriages.

The first of these was with Danny Keough, with whom she was between 1988 and 1994, a period in which they had two children: the actress and model Riley Keough and the emerging musician Benjamin Keough, who wanted to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps.

The latter starred in one of the greatest pains of his life, because in July 2020, at the age of 27, he made an attempt on his life, a final act that left Presley devastated and that he continued to remember in posterity.

“Several years ago on Mother’s Day my son and I got these matching tattoos on our feet. It’s a Celtic eternity knot. Symbolizing that we will be eternally connected. We handpicked it to represent our undying love and undying bond,” she wrote in an Instagram post in July of last year, showing off the design they both got tattooed on.

After breaking up with Keough in mid-1994, had a fleeting and strange marriage with the king of pop, Michael Jacksonwhich only lasted 20 months and aroused a series of criticisms, because some people accused that their union was a screen to change the image of the artist, after the accusations of sexual abuse of minors against him.

And despite the fact that they divorced in 1996, in 2002 she married the American actor Nicolas Cage, known for starring in films such as Goodbye Vegas (1995), although they only lasted three months together.

“They are madly in love, but the relationship was complicated. They both have a lot going on in their lives. The challenge was to see if they could come up with a perfect mix,” a friend of the couple explained at the time, according to statements gathered by the magazine. Hello!

Four years later, in 2006, he had his last marriage before he died on Thursday.

That union was with the music producer Michael Lockwood —known for working with her and with the artist pop Fiona Apple—, with whom she had twin girls.

And although it lasted longer with him than with Jackson or Cage, their union came to an end a decade later, in 2016, because in their words during that time, there were “irreconcilable differences.”