Riley Keough reveals relationship with grandma Priscilla Presley all shook up: ‘A bit of upheaval’

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Riley Keough, 34, was named the only trustee of mom Lisa Marie Presley’s property and the brand new proprietor of Graceland on Friday following a contentious battle along with her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, 78.

Almost seven months after Lisa Marie’s tragic demise on the age of 54, it seems like the connection between Keough and Priscilla continues to be all shook up.

“I’m attempting to consider a approach to reply it that’s not a 20-minute dialog,” Keough tells Vanity Fair in its September concern, due out Aug. 15, when requested if issues between her and Priscilla are “comfortable.”

“There was a little bit of upheaval, however now the whole lot’s going to be the way it was […] Something that might recommend in any other case within the press makes me unhappy as a result of, on the finish of the day, all she needs is to like and shield Graceland and the Presley household and the legacy.”

Shortly after Lisa Marie died on Jan. 12, Priscilla filed a petition disputing a 2016 modification to Lisa Marie’s will that had eliminated her as co-trustee and put Riley and her brother, Benjamin Storm Presley Keough, in cost. Benjamin died in 2020 by suicide.

Friday’s court docket motion permits Priscilla to be a paid particular adviser to the belief and to be buried at Graceland, Elvis Presley’s former dwelling in Memphis.

Priscilla and Elvis finalized their divorce in 1973. He died in 1977.

Keough tells Vainness Honest she final noticed her mom at a celebration for Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” a day after the Golden Globes have been held Jan. 10. The “Daisy Jones & the Six” star painfully recalled “how lovely” her mom regarded.

“After I misplaced my brother, there was no street map in any way, and it was loads of huge feelings that I didn’t know what to do with,” she mentioned of Benjamin’s demise.

“After I misplaced my mother, I used to be acquainted with the method slightly bit extra, and I discovered working to be actually useful. I discover it triggering when individuals say happiness is a selection, however in that second, I did really feel like there was a selection in entrance of me to surrender and let this occasion take me out or have the braveness to work by way of it. I began attempting to maneuver by way of it and never let it take me out.”

It was revealed final month that Lisa Marie died of a small bowel obstruction tied to bariatric surgical procedure she had a number of years in the past.

She was laid to relaxation at Graceland subsequent to Benjamin.

For her half, Keough says she is present process holistic remedy for Lyme illness in Switzerland as she raises her daughter, Tupelo Storm Smith-Petersen, whom she secretly welcomed with husband Ben Smith-Petersen through surrogate in August 2022.