Riley Keough is “grateful” to have a photo from the last time she noticed her mom, Lisa Marie Presley. In the snapshot, which seems to be taken 4 days previous to the singer’s stunning demise, Keough and Lisa Marie shared a quiet second collectively at a celebration marking what would have been Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday.
“I feel blessed to have a photo of the last time I saw my beautiful mama,” Keough wrote on Tuesday, thanking actress Georgie Flores for taking the image.
The photo is seemingly from the Jan. 8 bash at Graceland that honored not solely Elvis’s birthday, however Elvis director Baz Luhrmann and star Austin Butler forward of the Golden Globes. Lisa Marie’s last public look got here two days later as she attended the awards present alongside her mom, Priscilla Presley.
On Jan. 12, Lisa Marie — Elvis’s solely little one — died after struggling cardiac arrest. The medical expert has but to make an official ruling on the reason for demise. She was laid to relaxation and honored throughout a public memorial service on Sunday. Keough and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, attended the funeral at Graceland. Smith-Petersen, a stuntman who married the actress in 2015, gave a speech on behalf of his spouse.
“I’m eternally grateful to have spent 33 years with you. I’m certain I chose the best mother for me in this world. … I remember you giving me baths as a baby. I remember the way you would cuddle me … and the way you smelled,” Smith-Petersen learn. He additionally shared publicly for the primary time that Lisa Marie grew to become a grandmother earlier than her demise.
“I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters,” Smith-Petersen learn aloud. “Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, my tenacity. I’m a product of your heart, my sisters are a product of your heart, my brother is a product of your heart.”
A rep for the actress confirmed to Yahoo Entertainment that Keough and Smith-Petersen welcomed a daughter in 2022, however additional particulars — just like the little woman’s title — weren’t disclosed.
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