Snapshot · Call Her Daddy
Riley lost both her brother Benjamin and her mother Lisa Marie Presley within a span of roughly two years, a compounded grief experience she describes as deeply isolating.
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Alex asks whether Lisa Marie ever talked to Riley about the grief of losing her father and how she dealt with it, connecting it to the book's depictions of Lisa Marie crying and drinking in quiet moments. [1] — Riley Keough "Lisa Marie Presley never talked about her grief after Elvis died — only about Elvis himself. Because her grief was so public, she kept her …" 44:00 Riley's answer is direct: her mother never talked about her grief. She would talk about Elvis — his life, his music, his personality — but the feelings that his loss produced in her were too personal, too much her own in a world where everything about her grief was public property. The result, Riley thinks, was a decades-long deferral. Lisa Marie never processed it in her younger years the way she needed to, and it wasn't until her late 40s and into her 50s that she began to reckon with it. Riley frames this as partly generational — older generations simply didn't talk about their feelings, didn't have the vocabulary or the permission structures that younger people now do.
Lisa Marie Presley never talked about her grief after Elvis died — only about Elvis himself. Because her grief was so public, she kept her feelings private, and Riley believes she didn't truly begin to process it until her late 40s or 50s.
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