![]() (“He’s my absolute best friend in the world,” Lisa Marie will tell me later. He seems down-to-earth and friendly, and we compare notes about favorite British sitcoms. “I’m competing with videos, man, and video games,” he points out. The kids are still giggling in the wake of their lesson about the pharaohs, which seems to have deteriorated toward its end due to the semi-homophonous nature of the words sphinx and sphincter. (The children are currently in between schools.) Soon, Keough and the children wander in. I am also somewhat surprised to learn that, as we talk, her first husband, Danny Keough, is in the next room, home-schooling their two kids, Danielle, 13, and Ben, 10. After thirty-five years of biting her tongue, if she’s going to talk, then she’d rather convey her truth as it really is, not some carefully sanitized version of it. ![]() (There was, of course, the very surreal live TV interview with Diane Sawyer alongside her second husband, Michael Jackson, but we will get to all of that.) Now, having found a reason to speak, Lisa Marie Presley turns out to be the kind of woman who doesn’t mince words or glide evasively over the tricky areas. This is me, and it’s from me, and that’s the only reason I did it.”įor most of these years she has avoided talking in public. “This is how either fucked up I am, or crazy or deranged or stupid or whatever you want to call it. “You want to know who I am, and what I am, it’s in here,” she says. I want it understood where I’m coming from.” Thirty-five years in a world that has bombarded her with its views of who she is, who she was and who she should be thirty-five years of a scrutiny that began before her eyes even opened for the first time thirty-five years as the daughter of the first and most famous rock star of them all thirty-five years trying to navigate the gilded but treacherous path life has offered her … and now Lisa Marie Presley is about to release her first album, To Whom It May Concern. It’s frustrating, sitting with all this for years and years, not having said a word. “There’s no reason to be careful anymore,” explains Lisa Marie Presley, “Because everything is in that record. ![]()
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