Lisa Marie Presley’s last Instagram post was a screengrab of the essay she wrote for People about mourning the death of her son, Benjamin Keough. In 2020, Keough died by suicide at the age of 27. At the time, a representative for Lisa Marie told CNN that she was “entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley.” The rep noted how much Lisa Marie “adored that boy” and that she considered him as “the love of her life.”
It wasn’t until two years later that Lisa Marie discussed her son’s death at length. In her emotional essay, she wrote that losing Keough was her “worst nightmare,” and while it’s been years since he died, she shared that “grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss … Nothing, absolutely NOTHING takes away the pain, but finding support can sometimes help you feel a little bit less alone.”
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In an attempt to help more people who were also grieving, she shared the post on her Instagram page on National Grief Awareness Day in 2022. “I thought I’d post it here in the hopes that anyone who needs to hear all of this it helps in some way,” she said. Fans took no time to share their appreciation, with wife of late singer Chris Cornell, Vicky Cornell saying, “Everything you write hits home- for those of us who have faced tragic loss and a pain.”
