Lisa Marie Presley Wrote About Grief In Her Last Post Before Her Death

By Caitlin O'Kane, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

January 13, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died on Thursday at the age of 54, just hours after she was rushed to a hospital after experiencing cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California. Presley's son, Benjamin Keough died in 2020, and in her final Instagram post before her death, she spoke about grief.

Keough died by suicide at age 27 and in August, Presley penned an essay for People magazine in honor of National Grief Awareness Day. In August, she shared the essay on Instagram, writing: "Hi. In honor of it being National Grief Awareness Day, I wrote an essay about grief... I thought I'd post it here in the hopes that anyone who needs to hear all of this it helps in some way."

In the essay, Presley wrote that grief is an uncomfortable subject, but "has to get talked about."

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