Oprah Winfrey chooses Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir as her next book club pick

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has made her decision Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir as her new Book club Pick and take a trip to the famous Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee to meet Presley's daughter and Elvis and Priscilla Presley's granddaughter, actor Riley Keough.

Lisa Marie Presley's “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which Keough completed after Presley's unexpected death in 2023, was released Tuesday. Winfrey's interview with Keough, which includes rare family photos, home videos and audio recordings of Lisa Marie Presley, airs Tuesday night at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS.

“I have great love and admiration for Lisa Marie Presley and was so touched that her daughter Riley, despite her grief, was able to help her complete a beautifully touching memoir that allows us to see her mother at her most honest and vulnerable.” Winfrey said in a statement. “This is an intimate look at what it was like growing up as the heir to one of America’s most famous families.”

Keough said in a statement that when Winfrey told her she had chosen “From Here to the Great Unknown,” she thought about how proud her mother would have been “to know that her story had been read and read with so much empathy.” would be discussed.”, thought and grace.”

“She would have felt incredibly vulnerable, but was deeply grateful for the chance to really reach people,” added Keough, who narrated the audiobook edition along with Julia Roberts.

Lisa Marie Presley was the only daughter of Elvis Presley, who was just 42 years old when he died suddenly at Graceland in 1977 while young Lisa Marie was in the house. In preparing her memoir, she had recorded “story after story about crashing golf carts in the yards at Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them.” “That she was dragged out of the bathroom screaming as she ran toward his body on the floor,” according to publisher Random House.

The singer and actress also spoke about her marriage to Michael Jackson, her addiction issues and the “pervasive sadness” over the loss of her father. In a video clip released before the interview aired on Tuesday, Keough told Winfrey that she sometimes found her mother lying drunk on the floor, listening to her father's music and crying.

Lisa Marie Presley was 54 years old when she died Complications from bariatric surgery years before. Keough is the oldest of her four children, two of whom she had with actor and musician Danny Keough and two with guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood.