Nearly two years have passed since Lisa Marie Presley the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley died at the age of 53, and now, her daughter is speaking out. In a new interview, Riley Keough said that despite her mom’s official cause of death, she actually “died of a broken heart” after spending three years grieving the loss of her son, Benjamin, in 2020. Though Lisa Marie’s official cause of death was due to a small-bowel obstruction that had formed after a previous bariatric surgery years earlier, Riley told People she knows how hard the death of her brother was on her mom also played a part.

My mom tried her best to find strength for me and my younger sisters after Ben died, but we knew how much pain she was in,” she said. “My mom physically died from the after effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart.” In July 2020, TMZ was the first to report that Benjamin had died by suicide at the age of 27. An autopsy conducted by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office revealed that his cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the time, Roger Widynowski, Lisa Marie’s manager, told TMZ in a statement, “She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy.
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