Lisa Marie Presley reveals in memoir how she kept son's body

Lisa Marie Presley faced deep sorrow when her son died by suicide, a loss that changed her life forever.

The American singer kept her son’s body in the house for almost two months after he died as she was struggling with her loss.

As per NBC, the family revealed in a newly published memoir how she was so overwhelmed by her son’s death.

Lisa died from a small bowel obstruction on January 12, 2023. After she died, her family, Daisy Jones & the Six star Riley Keough, completed the book From Here to the Great Unknown.

Keough wrote in the book, “My mom had my brother in the house with us instead of keeping him at the morgue.”

“They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice.”

However, it was mentioned in the book that she wanted to have a proper time with her son to bid her last goodbye.

In 2020, Benjamin Keough died by suicide, and the sudden tragic death of her son crushed her mentally.

Reportedly, the room where his body was kept, was at 55 degrees.

Before her death, Presley had begun working on the memoir, “My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months.”

The late singer said California doesn't have laws about when a body has to be buried or handled. Keough used old recordings of her mom's memories to help complete the book.

“There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately. I found a very empathic funeral home owner,” Lisa wrote.

“I told her that having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him. She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben [her nickname for her son] to you. You can have him there.'”

Lisa added, “I think it would scare the living f—ing p-ss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.” She was nine years old when her father died in 1977.