Julia Roberts Called It a ‘Real Privilege’ to Be Able to Narrate Lisa Marie Presley’s Life Story
In 2024, Julia Roberts will narrate the audiobook of From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir. The book covers Presley’s life at Graceland, tumultuous relationships, and experiences as a mother. Roberts described it as a great privilege to be able to record Presley’s life story.
Julia Roberts is narrating the audiobook of Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir
Presley spent the final years of her life working on From Here to the Great Unknown. The memoir, which is out Oct. 8, will have an audiobook narrated by Roberts.
“Lisa Marie Presley’s one-of-a-kind memoir deserves an equally exceptional talent, and we are thrilled that Julia Roberts is lending her extraordinary gifts to this poignant production,” Amanda D’Acierno, president and publisher of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Julia’s performance adds a profound depth to this heartfelt story of mother and daughter. Combined with Riley Keough’s narration and the intimate recollections from Lisa Marie’s personal tapes, this audiobook promises to be an unforgettable experience for listeners.”
In a statement, Roberts said she was happy to lend her voice to the moving memoir.
“I was so moved by Lisa Marie’s incredible memoir,” she said. “It was a real privilege to give voice to her wild and beautiful life and I deeply appreciate Riley entrusting me with her mother’s story.”
Presley’s daughter, Riley Keough, believes Roberts is the ideal person to read her mother’s book.
“I’m so thrilled to have Julia be a part of this and read the voice of my mother,” she said. “I couldn’t think of anyone more perfect to help share her story with the world.”
Riley Keough will narrate Lisa Marie Presley’s audiobook alongside Julia Roberts
Keough’s voice will also narrate portions of her mother’s audiobook. In 2022, Presley asked her daughter for help completing the book. After her death in early 2023, Keough went through tapes her mother recorded and used them to finish the memoir. She hopes the book and accompanying audiobook will cut through the tabloid information about Presley. She wants to present her mother as she truly was.
“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveals the core of who she was,” Keough told People. “To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life. I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.”
The book gives an in-depth look at Lisa Marie Presley’s life
Because she was Elvis’ daughter, Presley was in the public eye from the moment she was born. Outlets have endlessly covered her ill-fated romances and relationships with her family members. With her memoir, Presley wanted to share her side of the story.
Keough’s involvement in finishing the book will give further insight into the relationship between mother and daughter.
“This extraordinary book is composed of both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voice, a mother and daughter communicating across the transom of death as they try to heal each other,” the book’s official website reads. “Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other — the last words of the only child of a true legend.
