Podbit · Call Her Daddy
When Lisa Marie married Michael Jackson, life didn't get crazier for Riley because the paparazzi chaos was already there. But Michael's world showed Lisa Marie what she was missing — a plane, more staff — and the family's lifestyle expanded accordingly.
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Riley was five when Lisa Marie told her she and Danny Keough were getting divorced. She remembers sitting on her mother's lap in Florida and interpreting the news as 'he's not my dad anymore' — a child's catastrophizing of a word she didn't understand. But the follow-through was unlike almost anything she had seen in her world: Danny moved into the guest house. He was there through Michael Jackson, through the subsequent marriages and boyfriends, a constant presence. What was modeled to Riley was that when a relationship ends, you keep the person in your life. [1] — Riley Keough "When Riley's parents Danny and Lisa Marie divorced in the '90s, Danny moved into the guest house — even when Lisa Marie had other partners.…" 25:20 She applied this to her own relationships — almost all her exes became friends — not consciously, she says, but organically, because it's the only model she ever had. She reflects on the through line with Lisa Marie: through all the famous relationships, Danny was always there, was there at the end. Riley draws the quiet conclusion that they probably shouldn't have been married — but they should have been in each other's lives.
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