Lisa Marie Presley kept son Benjamin Keough's body on dry ice at her house for two months after he died in a bid to help her grieve
Lisa Marie Presley was so overcome with grief when her son Benjamin Keough died by suicide at the age of 27 in 2020 that she kept his body at home for two months after.
The admission was revealed in her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which was finished by her daughter Riley Keough.
In the book, Presley revealed she kept his body on dry ice at "55 degrees" [12 degrees celsius] in a casitas in her Los Angeles home as she struggled to come to the terms with the loss.
At one point, she even showed a tattoo artist his body before laying him to rest at the Presley family home, Graceland.
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Lisa Marie Presley kept son Benjamin Keough's body on dry ice at her house for two months after he died. Instagram
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A casitas is a separate living area that's detached from the main house.
For Presley, the move was nothing unusual as she had her dad at home after his death which helped her grieve the loss when she was just a kid.
"I felt so fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest," her memoir reads, according to People.
"I think it would scare the living f---ing piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me."
"I felt so fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer," the wrote. Instagram
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Presley struggled at first deciding to bury her son at Graceland or Hawaii.
She added about her late dad Elvis' death: "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."
"Having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful," she said. Getty
Benjamin died in July 2020 by suicide, while Lisa Marie died in January 2023 at the age of 54, of a bowel obstruction.
Keough previously penned a candid post about her late mother on Instagram, writing underneath a flashback photograph: "Lucky to have had the best and most deeply loving mama I could have asked for."
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