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Riley Keough felt the moment when Lisa Marie Presley died

Riley Keough felt the moment when Lisa Marie Presley died

Riley Keough says she had an eerie intuition the day her mother Lisa Marie Presley died.

Appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” last week, the “Daisy Jones & The Six” actress recalled “feeling” that Presley had passed away on January 12, 2023, even though she hadn’t at that time was at her mother’s side.

“I just felt like, I don’t know,” Keough said. “There have been incidents before, you know, health incidents, and I didn’t have the same feeling.

“I felt that kind of devotion in that moment.”

Keough is on a promotional tour for Presley’s posthumous memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown.” Although Presley was still working on the book at the time of her death, Keough used her mother’s audio recordings to complete it.

Watch a clip from Keough’s “Drew Barrymore Show” interview below.

In the book, Keough recounts emotional details about Presley’s death, noting that she had just jumped on a plane as her mother was being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital for what paramedics at the time thought was a heart attack. (A coroner later said an intestinal obstruction caused her death.)

According to book excerpts published by NBC and New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Keough already felt as if Presley was “between two worlds” when she heard the news.

“Despite all that love she had inside her and despite all her efforts to live, we could all see it,” she wrote. “We could all feel it coming.”

Riley Keough and her mother Lisa Marie Presley in 2017.

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Although From Here to the Great Unknown deals with both Presley’s death and the death of her son Benjamin in 2020, Keough shrugged off the idea that the memoir is tragic.

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“There were a few things I read that kind of said, ‘This is the saddest thing I’ve ever read in my life,’ but the experience of living that wasn’t that,” she told Barrymore. “I think the end of my brother and my mother’s lives was obviously devastating, but a lot of our lives were so fun and joyful and fun.”

Lisa Marie Presley is now buried at Graceland, the Tennessee estate that once belonged to her father, music legend Elvis Presley.

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