Lisa Marie Presley kept her dead son on dry ice for two months before finally arranging his funeral, a new memoir reveals.
Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, kept his 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at home with her instead of keeping him in the morgue after he killed himself in 2020..
According to a memoir started by Presley and completed by her daughter, actress Riley Keough, 35, Benjamin was kept on dry ice because California has no laws mandating when a body must be disposed of.
Daisy Jones & the Six actress Keough said: “It was really important for my mum to have enough time to say goodbye to him, in the same way she had done to her dad.
“And I would go and sit there with him,” Sky News’ US affiliate network, NBC, quoted her as writing.
Presley wrote: “I think it would scare the living hell out of anyone else to have their son out there like that. But not me.”
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The memoir recalls how Presley and her daughter decided to get a tattoo to match Benjamin’s while his body lay in a 55C room.
“Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at her dead son’s body, which happened to be right next to us in the casita. I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” Keough wrote.
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