Despite having “more than anyone’s fair share” of tragedy and heartbreak in her life, 54-year-old Lisa Marie Presley stepped out of her father’s shadow with her music.

She wrote in August, “I’ve dealt with death, grief, and loss since I was nine years old.”

When her father, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, died, she was only nine years old.

When her son Benjamin Keough committed suicide in 2020, she was 52 years old.

Nicolas Cage, an actor, and the late singer Michael Jackson were two of her four husbands.

Lisa Marie was born in 1968 to actress Priscilla and Elvis. She spent the first four years of her life at her parents’ Memphis, Tennessee mansion, Graceland.

Elvis loved his daughter so much that he named his plane after her. However, after her parents split up in 1973, Lisa Marie moved in with her mother in the Los Angeles suburbs and made frequent trips to her father’s house.

He passed away there in 1977, when he was 42 years old. He died of a heart attack, according to the doctors, probably brought on by his dependence on prescription painkillers.
Her troubled adolescence may not have surprised anyone.

She stated to the Los Angeles Times in 2003 that after her father’s death, her mother “started acting out and experimenting with drugs” and sent her to a number of private schools.

Lisa Marie stated to the newspaper, “I was kind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child.”

“For a while, I was really in a self-destructive mode. I never really made the cut at school. I didn’t really know where to go.”
She said that Scientology was “a form of self-help, self-discovery,” and that the controversial church “helped her break from drugs and start building some self-esteem.”

“It has less to do with God. It is not religious. It provided responses to my life-related inquiries. It resembles Humpty Dumpty at its most fundamental level. They assisted in putting me back together after I fell off the wall.”

“Suffering silently” It was sometimes difficult for her to maintain her composure. Following the birth of her twin daughters in 2008, she developed an opioid and painkiller addiction, according to CNN.

In the foreword to her 2019 book The United States of Opioids, she discussed her addiction: A Medication for Freeing a Torn Nation

Addiction to opioids and other substances is causing a growing number of people to suffer in silence. She wrote, “I am writing this in the hope that I can contribute in some small way to bringing attention to this terrible crisis.”

Riley and Benjamin were also born to her and her first husband, musician Danny Keough.

In May 1994, she wed Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, in her second marriage. In 1997, they divorced.
In his 1995 music video for You Are Not Alone, Lisa Marie made a memorable appearance. The video was oddly interspersed with what appeared to be intimate footage of the couple in their underwear in their bedroom.

In 2003, she stated to Rolling Stone magazine that her attraction to him stemmed from his enigmatic way of life and that she wanted to shield him from allegations of child abuse.

Additionally, Lisa Marie stated that she was “not proud” of her brief marriage, which was so disastrous by the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards that their animosity was evident. As he sang a medley of hits, the audience left her staring at him.

She stated, “It just got really ugly at the end.”

“A bad situation” She asked for a divorce, but he wouldn’t talk to her. He said that the experience caused her to have a mental and physical breakdown, which she overcame by writing songs.

However, she added: I have zero interest in criticizing Michael. I’m trying to say it without portraying him as a bad person because I know that people want to know what that was about.

“It’s hard to do because the situation was so bad.”
She was able to attempt to make a name for herself as a musician toward the end of the 1990s.

Even though she had written songs when she was younger, the pressure of being the King’s daughter had made it hard for her to share her music with the world. There was a lot to achieve.

She sang in a 1997 duet with her late father on his 1968 song “Don’t Cry Daddy.”

Glen Ballard, who was also a songwriter and producer at the time, helped her negotiate a deal with Capitol Records and set a release date for her debut album for 2000.

However, her marriage to actor Nicolas Cage, who won an Oscar in 1996 for the film Leaving Las Vegas and starred in Face Off, remained fraught in her personal life. After just 107 days together, they broke up.

In the end, she released her first album, To Whom It May Concern, in 2003. In 2005 and 2012, she released two more albums.