Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley. Mediapunch/Shutterstock
Remembering the candy instances. Riley Keough paid tribute to her late mom, Lisa Marie Presley, on Mom’s Day.
“Fortunate to have had the very best and most deeply loving mama I may have requested for 💕,” the Daisy Jones & The Six star, 33, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, Could 14, alongside a throwback picture of her mother and father — Presley and her ex-husband Danny Keough — holding child Riley.
Sunday marks Riley’s first Mom’s Day with out her mother. The late songwriter — who was the one little one of Elvis Presley and his ex-wife, Priscilla Presley — died in January on the age of 54 after struggling cardiac arrest. Lisa Marie is survived by her mom, 77, and three daughters. The “Storm & Grace” songstress additionally shared twins Harper and Finley, each 14, with ex Michael Lockwood. (Lisa Marie and Danny, 58, had been additionally mother and father to son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in July 2020 on the age of 27.)
Practically one week after the Tennessee native’s dying, her household got here collectively for a memorial service.
“A letter to my Mama,” Riley’s husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, learn aloud his spouse’s eulogy on her behalf in the course of the January 22 service at Elvis’ Graceland property. “Thanks for being my mom on this life. I’m eternally grateful to have spent 33 years with you. I’m sure I selected the very best mom for me on this world and I knew that way back to I can bear in mind you.”
He continued on the time: “I bear in mind all the things. I bear in mind you giving me baths as a child, I bear in mind you driving me in my automotive seat listening to Aretha Franklin. I bear in mind the best way you’d cuddle me after I’d come into your mattress at evening and the best way you smelled. … I bear in mind you singing me and my brother lullabies at evening and the way you’d lay with us till you fell asleep. I bear in mind the way it felt to be cherished by essentially the most loving mom I’ve ever recognized.”
The Girlfriend Expertise alum’s observe additionally confirmed that she and the Australia native, 31, had secretly welcomed their first little one, a child woman, in 2022.
“Thanks for exhibiting me that love is the one factor that issues on this life,” Smith-Petersen learn on his partner’s behalf. “I hope I can love my daughter the best way you really liked me, the best way you really liked my brother and my sisters.”
Sunday’s vacation can be the primary time that Riley is celebrating Mom’s Day as a father or mother herself. Whereas she and the stuntman have loved watching their baby develop, they’ve stored her out of the highlight.
“Riley wished to maintain the start of her daughter non-public as a result of [she] and her whole household is so public in each different manner,” a supply solely instructed Us Weekly in March. “The potential of extra children is one thing that each Riley and Ben are very open to within the close to future.”
