Celebrities pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley 1:23
(CNN) — Lisa Marie Presley loved being the mother of her “pups.”
So referenced the singer-songwriter, who died this Thursday at the age of 54, in a 2019 post on her verified Instagram account while discussing her four children – daughters Riley, Finley and Harper and son Benjamin .
His love for his children was palpable. In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Presley remarked that “having all my kids” was the happiest time of her life after growing up at Graceland as the only daughter of superstar Elvis Presley.
Because of this, she said she was devastated when Benjamin died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
Presley’s last post, in August 2022, referred his followers to an essay he wrote for National Grief Awareness Day, which was published by People magazine “with the hope that anyone who needs to hear it all will help her in some way.” will.”
In the essay, Presley said he had “lived in the horrific reality of the implacable claws [del dolor] since the death” of her son two years ago, and then she shared her feelings of grief and loss.
Lisa Marie Presley and her daughters.
“Death is a part of life, whether we like it or not, and so is grief,” he wrote. “There is a lot to learn and understand on this subject, but so far this is what I know: one thing is that grief in no way stops or goes away a year or more after the loss.”
“Pain is something that you have to carry with you for the rest of your life, regardless of what certain people or our culture would have us believe,” Presley added. “You don’t get over it, you don’t move on, period.”
Benjamin was the son she had with her first husband, musician Danny Keough, who is also the father of her daughter Riley, 33, a successful actress.
Twins Finley and Harper, 14, are from Presley’s last husband, musician and producer Michael Lockwood, who she divorced in 2016.
“I still fight for my daughters,” Presley wrote in her essay.
Lisa Marie Presley children
“I am continuing because my son has made it very clear in his final moments that caring for and taking care of his little sisters is at the forefront of his concerns. He absolutely adored her and she him,” she wrote. “My life, and that of my three daughters, as we knew it, was utterly devastated and devastated by his death. We live in this situation every day.”
Since then, Presley has leaned on his relationship with his daughters. In a post she made for her birthday on February 1st, she captioned a photo of them together: “Like every day, I couldn’t have made it without these three by my side.
However, her beloved son was never far from her thoughts.
In July 2022, she shared a photo of matching tattoos she and Benjamin had on their feet.
“A few years ago, on Mother’s Day, my son and I got these tattoos on our feet. It is a Celtic eternity knot. It symbolizes that we will be connected forever,” the caption for her Instagram photo reads. “We carefully chose it to represent our everlasting love and connection.”
Presley told The Guardian in 2012 that his greatest fear was death. After her death, Presley added, she wants to be remembered “as mostly a good mother and a pretty good singer-songwriter.”