Lisa Marie Presley’s Memoir: 3 Explosive Revelations About Life With Priscilla Presley
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir From Here to the Great Unknown is a raw and unfiltered look at her life growing up as the only daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. Here are three explosive revelations about life with her mother, Priscilla Presley.
Lisa Marie Presley called herself Priscilla Presley’s ‘trophy’
In her memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley called herself Priscilla Presley’s “trophy.” Lisa Marie claimed that her mother’s wishes for her were dramatically different from what she wanted.
For example, Lisa said Priscilla sent her to a pricey French school with other celebrity kids because Priscilla was dating someone French and was “obsessed” with the culture. Furthermore, Priscilla wanted Lisa Marie to go to a finishing school where she would be taught social skills, etiquette, and cultural refinement to prepare her for high society or professional life.
“I felt like she should have gotten a different daughter. It was about how things looked. The way things appeared seemed more important than feelings. My mom would never allow herself to lose control, everything was all in its place,” Lisa said in the book.
Lisa Marie admitted she was wild and Priscilla was a ‘chronic stop sign’
Lisa Marie Presley revealed she was wild and rebellious as a teenager. She went against most of Priscilla Presley’s strict rules, which were the opposite of how she lived at Graceland before Elvis Presley’s death.
“By this point in my life, my mother’s role was just to be a chronic stop sign,” Lisa Marie wrote. “She didn’t try to talk to me, hang out with me, or be a friend.”
In contrast, Lisa Marie said she was “very much in love with my father’s side.” She called them “wildly colorful people” and she related to the Presley family in a way she couldn’t with Priscilla.
Lisa Marie added, “I know she tried her best. She was trying to figure things out and grow up too and I gave her a genuinely hard time. I never yelled at her, never mouthed off to her, cursed at her, was never violent around her, anything like that.”
She concluded, “I was just despondent, extremely melancholy, moody, dark. I’m sure she had no idea what to do with that.”
Lisa Marie claims one of Priscilla’s longtime boyfriends sexually assaulted her
Lisa Marie Presley wrote she was molested by Priscilla Presley’s longtime boyfriend, actor Michael Edwards, beginning when she was just 10 years old. She alleged Edwards would enter her room at night when she was a child.
“The first time Edwards came into my room in the middle of the night, drunk, kneeling, was years before. I think I was 10. I woke up to find him on his knees next to my bed, running his finger up my leg under the sheets and if I moved he stopped, so I moved.”
“He said he was going to teach me what was going to happen when I get older,” Lisa Marie alleged. She then explained in graphic detail what Edwards had done to her, including physical assaults, and spankings that caused bruising.
Michael Edwards denies allegations he ever sexually abused Lisa Marie Presley per People Magazine. Priscilla Presley dated Edwards from 1978 through 1984. She has not commented on Lisa Marie’s allegations.
How to get help: In the U.S., call the RAINN National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 to connect with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.
