When Riley Keough was asked by her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, to help write the story of her life for an upcoming memoir titled "From Here to the Great Unknown," neither of them could have anticipated the tragedy that would strike just one month later.
In an interview with People ramping up to the release of the book on Oct. 8, Keough speaks of the sudden death of her mom on January 12, 2023 — due to a bowel obstruction, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner — and how it was important to pick the task back up after her immediate grief had subsided, as to fulfill her mom's dying wish of making her better known to the world and seem more relatable in a way that had evaded her in her lifetime.
