From here to the great unknown details Lisa Marie’s childhood at Graceland as his daughter Elvis and Priscilla Presleyas well as her marriages to Michael Jackson and Keough’s father, Danny.

Parker and Hamilton revisited some of the memoir’s most fascinating aspects, such as Lisa Marie’s relationship with her father. They also discussed what the reading was like for someone who didn’t know the Presleys personally. In one section, Lisa Marie describes being on a rollercoaster ride with Elvis while holding a gun, just a week before his death in 1977.

“If you didn’t know or understand it, it sounds terrible, I know,” Lisa Marie wrote. “You might think he was crazy, carrying a piece with his daughter sitting next to him, but he was only from the South. It was just funny.”

For readers unfamiliar with the King of Pop, however, anecdotes like this struck a little differently.

“I think that was what was so stressful about this book, is reading it without processing,” Hamilton said. “When you’re a kid, I get, ‘How funny is it that my dad has a gun on him while we’re on a rollercoaster?'”

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Singer died of cardiac arrhythmiaand had numerous health problems later in life, including mild diabetes and high blood pressure. In the memoir, Lisa Marie recalled another incident where she had friends over at Graceland and went to check on her father. She found Elvis face down in the bathroom after a fall and her friends had to help him up.

“She and her friends were sitting in her room and then her dad would come to the door and they’d see him about to fall over,” Hamilton said.

Parker added that she felt Lisa Marie “was very proud” that she was “super aware” of what her father was going through.

“She’s constantly looking for her father,” Hamilton added. “He takes a lot of pride in being the person who has a connection with him where he can tell when he’s in distress and get to him as quickly as possible.”

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“I was always worried about my father’s death,” Lisa Marie wrote in the book. “Sometimes I would see him and he was gone. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line “I hope my father doesn’t die”.

From here to the Great Unknownpublished October 8 by Random House, was completed by Keough after Lisa Marie he died at the age of 54 in January 2023 from a small bowel obstruction. Before her death, Lisa Marie created a series of tape recordings, which Keough listened to to finish the book.

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“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people can relate to a very human experience of love, heartache, loss, addiction and family,” Keough said. he told PEOPLE in an email interview for an October 7 print cover. “(My mother) wanted to write a book in hopes that someone could read her story and relate to it, know that they are not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just a human connection. So this is mine.”

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