Cherished recollections. Riley Keough shared the ultimate image she took with mother Lisa Marie Presley earlier than her dying earlier this month.
“I really feel blessed to have a photograph of the final time I noticed my lovely mama,” the Daisy Jones and the Six actress, 33, wrote through Instagram on Tuesday, January 24. “Grateful @georgieflores took this.”
The photograph was taken on January 8 at Formosa Café in West Hollywood. They celebrated what would have been the “Jailhouse Rock” singer’s 88th birthday with Elvis director Baz Luhrrman and star Austin Butler.
Lisa Marie died 4 days afterward January 12, hours after Us Weekly confirmed that the “Lights Out” songstress was hospitalized for cardiac arrest. She was 54.
The late singer is survived by her mom, Priscilla Presley, and half-brother Navarone Garibaldi in addition to three kids and one grandchild. Lisa Marie shared Riley and son Benjamin with ex-husband Danny Keough, to whom she was married from 1988 to 1994. (Benjamin died by suicide at age 27 in July 2020.) She welcomed twins Harper and Finley, 14, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood, to whom she was married from 2006 to 2021. She additionally turned a grandmother earlier than her dying when Riley and husband Ben Smith-Petersen welcomed their daughter, whose start they revealed through the Graceland memorial service.
Smith-Petersen, 31, stepped as much as the rostrum on his spouse’s behalf on Sunday, January 22.
“A letter to my Mama,” the stuntman stated whereas studying Riley’s word through the Sunday, January 22, service. “Thanks for being my mom on this life. I’m eternally grateful to have spent 33 years with you. I’m sure I selected one of the best mom for me on this world and I knew that way back to I can bear in mind you.”
The Australia native continued: “I bear in mind how secure it felt to be in our arms. I keep in mind that feeling as a baby and I bear in mind it two weeks in the past in your sofa. Thanks for displaying me that love is the one factor that issues on this life. I hope I can love my daughter the way in which you liked me, the way in which you liked my brother and my sisters.”
The actress’ rep confirmed that Riley and Smith-Petersen secretly welcomed a child lady earlier than her mom’s passing.
“Thanks for giving me power, my coronary heart, my empathy, my braveness, my humorousness, my manners, my mood, my wildness, my tenacity,” Smith-Petersen concluded his spouse’s speech on Sunday. “I’m a product of your coronary heart, my sisters are a product of your coronary heart, my brother is a product of your coronary heart. We’re you, you’re us, my everlasting love. I hope you lastly know the way cherished you had been right here. Thanks for making an attempt so onerous for us. If I didn’t inform you every single day, thanks.”
