Priscilla Presley details taking Lisa Marie off life support: Second saddest day of my life

Priscilla Presley is looking back on her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s tragic death.While promoting her upcoming memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,” Priscilla, 80, told People about the decision to take Lisa Marie off life support in Jan.2023.“It was the second saddest day of my life, other than losing Elvis,” Priscilla shared.

“It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that Lisa was gone.”Lisa Marie was Priscilla and the late Elvis Presley’s only child.The 54-year-old died of a small bowel obstruction that developed after she underwent bariatric surgery years earlier.Priscilla recalled that Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Danny Keough, found her unresponsive at home and called Priscilla to come meet them at the hospital.“We were there all day long,” Priscilla told People.

“Lisa really wasn’t breathing, so she was on the ventilator.For hours we were there waiting, hoping and praying until the doctor came in and said, ‘Priscilla, I’m so sorry, she’s gone.””“We just couldn’t believe it — didn’t want to believe it,” the “Naked Gun” actress continued.

“It was hard on all of us, it still is.”Priscilla has experienced other tragedies in her famous family.Her grandson, Lisa Marie and Danny’s son Benjamin Keough, died by suicide at age 27 in 2020.

Priscilla has also helped her 38-year-old son Navarone Garibaldi, whom she shares with ex Marco Garibaldi, get clean from drug addiction.“It hasn’t been easy at all.But you have to find strength,” Priscilla told People, adding that Navarone is currently sober and in a “good place.”Priscilla also shared that she’s found joy being a great-grandmother to granddaughter Riley Keough’s two children that she shares with husband Ben Smith-Petersen.In People’s excerpt from her memoir, out Sept.

23, Priscilla recalled that Lisa Marie “was already gone” when she rushed to see her daughter at the hospital.“She was hooked to a machine that was ...