“It took more and more to get high, and I honestly don’t know when your body decides it can’t deal with it anymore,” Lisa Marie wrote.\n
Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s memoir has revealed how serious the star\u2019s opioid addiction was during the height of her addiction, with a quote about how it was \u201ctoo painful to be sober.\u201d\n
In the new memoir \u201cFrom Here to the Great Unknown\u201d \u2014 written by Lisa Marie and completed by her daughter actress Riley Keough \u2014 the late star opened up about becoming addicted to the painkillers after giving birth to her twins in 2008, Finley and Harper, with ex-husband Michael, People magazine reported. Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54 from complications from prior bariatric surgery.\n
\u201cIt escalated to 80 pills a day,\u201d Lisa Marie wrote. \u201cIt took more and more to get high, and I honestly don\u2019t know when your body decides it can\u2019t deal with it anymore. But it does decide at some point.\u201d\n
The late star said her opioid use was \u201crecreational\u201d for a few years, until \u201cit wasn\u2019t.\u201d\n
\u201cIt was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues. I just wanted to check out. It was too painful to be sober.\u201d\n
Keough wrote that her mom first became addicted to the narcotics while dealing with the pain of her C-section from having the twins. Her addiction progressed from using the opioids to help her \u201csleep,\u201d but she began to feel \u201cshame\u201d about becoming an addict with two young kids.\n
The 35-year-old actress wrote that, even when her mom was court-ordered to go to a rehab center, she \u201cdidn\u2019t feel\u201d her mom \u201cwas ready to be sober.\u201d She also wrote that after her mom\u2019s rehab stint, Lisa Marie did stop using opioids, but was still getting high on the \u201cpost-rehab cocktail.\u201d\n
Keough previously opened up about how \u201cincredibly painful\u201d it was making her late mother\u2019s final wish a reality, by completing Presley\u2019s memoir.\n
\u201cBecause my mother was Elvis Presley\u2019s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected,\u201d Keough explained.\n
\u201cWhat she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I\u2019ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was,\u201d she added. \u201cTo turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life.\u201d\n
\u201cI want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive,\u201d Riley continued. \u201cI hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family. [My mom] wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, to know that they\u2019re not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that\u2019s mine.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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