NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Oprah Winfrey has chosen as her new pick, and made a trip to the famed Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with Presley's daughter and Elvis and Priscilla Presley's granddaughter, actor Riley Keough.
Lisa Marie Presley's 鈥淔rom Here to the Great Unknown," completed by Keough after Presley died unexpectedly in 2023, was published Tuesday. Winfrey's interview with Keough, which will include rare family photos, home videos and audio recordings made by Lisa Marie Presley, will air Tuesday night at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS.
鈥淚 have great love and admiration for Lisa Marie Presley, and was so moved that her daughter Riley, through her grief, was able to help her finish a beautifully touching memoir that allows us to see her mother at her most honest and vulnerable,鈥� Winfrey said in a statement. 鈥淭his is an intimate look at what it was like growing up as heir to one of America鈥檚 most famous families.鈥�
Keough said in a statement that upon being told by Winfrey that she had selected 鈥淔rom Here to the Great Unknown,'鈥� she thought of how her mother would have been proud "to know her story was going to be read and discussed with such empathy, thought and grace.鈥�
鈥淪he would have felt incredibly vulnerable, but profoundly grateful for the chance to really reach people," added Keough, who along with Julia Roberts narrated the audiobook edition.
Lisa Marie Presley was the only daughter of Elvis Presley, who was just 42 when he died suddenly in 1977 at Graceland, while young Lisa Marie was in the house. In preparing her memoir, she had recorded 鈥渟tory after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor,鈥� according to the publisher, Random House.
The singer and actor also talked about her marriage to Michael Jackson, struggles with addiction and the 鈥渆ver-present grief鈥� of losing her father. In a video clip released before Tuesday's interview aired, Keough told Winfrey that at times she would find her mother on the floor, drunk, listening to her father's music and crying.
Lisa Marie Presley was 54 when she died of years earlier. Keough is the oldest of her four children, two of whom she had with actor-musician Danny Keough and two with guitarist-producer Michael Lockwood.
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
