Lisa Marie Presley saved her late son’s physique in her California residence for 2 months

By Lisa Respers France | CNN

Lisa Marie Presleywas devastated when her solely son, Benjamin Keough, died aged 27 in 2020

Now we all know how deeply she grieved.

In From Right here to the Nice Unknown, a brand new memoir of the late Presley accomplished by her daughter Riley Keoughthe 2 wrote that Presley saved her son “in the home with us as an alternative of maintaining him within the morgue.”

“We have been advised that if we may handle the physique, we may have it at residence, so she saved it in our home for some time on dry ice,” wrote Keough, who used recordings of her mom sharing her reminiscences to to complete a e book. “It was actually necessary for my mom to have sufficient time to say goodbye to him, the identical means she had accomplished to her father. And I might go and sit there with him.

Presley, the one baby of the legendary Elvis Presley, was 9 years previous when he died of an obvious coronary heart assault on the age of 42 in 1977. The youthful Presley died in January 2023 of problems from previous weight loss surgery aged 54.

Presley is quoted in her memoir as explaining that her home had “separate bed room casitas” the place she saved her son, whom she named “Ben Ben”, after he died.