Lisa Marie Presley kept her son Benjamin’s body at home for two months. “I’m so used to him.”

Lisa Marie Presley struggled to deal with the loss of her son Benjamin after he died by suicide in 2020. In her posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, she explained how she kept the 27-year-old’s body on dry ice in her Los Angeles home. The book, released on Tuesday, was completed by Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough after she died of an intestinal blockage in 2023.

Lisa Marie Presley kept her son’s body at home for two months after his death

“My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I put Ben there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that requires a person to be buried immediately. I found a very sensitive funeral home owner… She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben to you.’ You can have him there,'” the late singer wrote in her bombshell memoir.

Riley noted that it was “really important” for her mother to have “enough time to say goodbye to him, just as she did to her father, Elvis Presley, who died when Lisa Marie was just nine years old.” . “Having my dad in the house after his death was incredibly helpful because I was able to spend time with him and talk to him,” the Lights Out singer wrote.

Lisa Marie reflected on how keeping his son’s body at her home gave her time to move on. She explained that the room was kept at a temperature of 55 degrees to protect Benjamin’s body, adding that she had a hard time finding a place for him to rest since she was traveling back and forth between Hawaii and Graceland. “That was one of the reasons it took so long,” she wrote.

“I got so used to him and took care of him and kept him there,” the Dirty Laundry singer continued, adding, “I think it would scare the hell out of anyone else if their son was there like that.” . But not me.” “I was so happy that there was a way to still educate him and delay it a little longer so I was okay with putting him to rest.”

Eventually, the family held a funeral for Benjamin in Malibu and laid him to rest next to Elvis at Graceland. In 2022, Lisa Marie told People that she was “destroyed” by her son’s death but needed to “move on for my girls.” “I continue because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and caring for them was his priority,” she added.