Riley Keough almost removed the story of Ben from Lisa Marie’s memoir

Riley Keough almost removed the story of her late brother, Benjamin Keoughfrom mom Lisa Marie Presleymemoir — but decided against it.

“My brother’s body was something that I thought I would take out, but my mom was so — on the record — she doesn’t let people know,” Riley, 35, said during an appearance on Thursday the 12th. Jenna Bush Hager‘with Open the Book with Jenna Podcast..

Riley wrote and helped posthumously publish Presley’s memoir, From here to the Great Unknownin October. In one chapter, Presley—who died from a heart attack aged 54 in 2023 – recalled leaving her son Benjamin’s body there her home “for two months” after his death in 2020. (Benjamin he died by suicide at age 27)

“I think it would scare the living crap out of anybody else to have their son in there like that,” Presley wrote. “But I don’t.

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After reflection, Riley decided that “there is no part” of Presley that matters to what people say. So this anecdote was part of the book.

Riley noticed From here to the Great Unknown is a “quite candid portrait” of her late mother. The actress’ goal in completing the memoir was to be “as truthful as possible.” “I was protecting her,” she added.

“I think when my brother died, she didn’t want to write about anything but my brother. And she wanted to write about grief, but she had already started, you know, an autobiography,” Riley explained during Thursday’s episode of the podcast. “And so she was confused as to what to do.

Presley asked Riley for it help with the memoir before she died. After her mother’s death in 2023, Daisy Jones & The Six the star finished the book. Presley’s and Riley’s descriptions of what happened are marked in different fonts.

In her reflection on Benjamin’s death, Riley remembered that he was the one who told her mother that he died. “We all knew my mom was going to die of a broken heart,” she wrote of Presley after Benjamin’s death.

“I think she really wanted it to feel classy and true, but she also didn’t like to talk about herself and was very shy. So I think her thought was like, ‘You know me better than I know me,'” Riley explained to Bush Hager. “It was a thing that was incomplete that I was the only one who could finish.

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