Riley Keough
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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Yeah. His mother was an alcoholic and it was the South and in the times where, you know, the way he sort of grew up, like they didn't really have money. And that was kind of a huge, if I could imagine coming from that kind of a lifestyle of
scarcity in that way and then turning into sort of like the most famous person in the world and the sort of the money and the the stuff and all of that I would imagine that that would be also kind of hard to process which I think you see all the time but I think that his particular situation was really polarizing because of sort of where he and his family had come from mm-hmm
Yes, totally. The whole like hillbilly family.
Her dad died, and then literally what happened was she had to live full-time with her mom in California. And I think that she had lived at Graceland in the house with Elvis and also with her mother. But for her, Graceland and the time with her father was really represented there. like a freedom and also unconditional love.
And the connection that she had with him was, I think, one of the most important connections of her life. And I think that the loss of him, it's not to say that other people didn't love her, but she always would say, I don't remember anybody else other than my dad until he died. And so she was grieving, but she was grieving with like the country and the world.
And I think, you know, she says in the book that she was sitting on the stairs and watching people come in and fainting and being carried away by ambulances. And so I think she was very protective of her grief because it felt like something she
could have ownership or like it was I think people would ask her about him a lot and as she grew older she didn't really ever talk about his death and she didn't talk about it publicly surely I think there were two sides of it I think that on one side she didn't properly go through the process of grief as a normal person might because it felt like this thing she was holding on to for herself
And on the other side, I think that there was comfort in the sort of like collective grief she felt for her father, which lasted her whole life. And when she would go home to Graceland or, you know, there's something called Elvis Week, which is like an event where fans come to the house.
I would see that she would be really comforted by the fans who would hug her and hold her and the sadness that they had, that they shared over the loss of her father. So I think that it was sort of a twofold thing.
It was like 2021 or something, or 2020 when she started saying like, trauma, I have trauma, you know, which was amazing, but like so late in her life.
What's interesting is that I definitely as a child could perceive her grief, like I could feel her sadness. But it's such a, like you're saying, such a unique experience grief that I didn't truly understand her grief until I lost my brother as well. And then imagining... you know, a child, like a nine-year-old sort of having that experience and with a parent.
So it's a, I mean, very normal human things, but a unique circumstance. Sorry for your loss. Thank you.
her mom? I've thought about this a lot when writing the book. And before my mom passed away, I didn't think about their relationship a lot. They've had a complicated relationship through my life, but we've all been fairly close. There was never a moment where anyone was estranged. Their dynamic was, there was always something my mom was wanting that she wasn't being given.
But we still spent holidays together and weekends. So I didn't totally consider their relationship until after she passed and I was writing the book. And I think that my relationship with my grandmother, which I think is really common, is very different to hers with her mother. And I think that fundamentally, they were very different people. My grandmother...
Really cared about appearance and manners and kind of old school kind of, you know, wanting everything the house to be perfect and and her priorities were sort of wanting things to present as perfect or, you know, and I think that a lot of that was from the pressure she probably experienced.
being 14 years old and having to be, you know, the partner, soon partner of Elvis and this like sort of perfect woman in the 1960s, you know, which is really intense for her. So I think that she felt a lot of pressure to be this, the most beautiful woman in the world, the most perfect woman in the world and wanted to keep her
role as Elvis's partner essentially from 14 so I take that into consideration a lot I don't know if my mom did you know I think to her it was just her mom like I don't know if she would if she thought about that much and there's a sense feeling in her that's sort of like, I don't want the plates to fall in my grandmother. And I can see where that comes from.
And I think when it's so close that it's your mom, you don't always give the grace there. Of course. But my mom was such a sort of like radical woman in the time she was born. And I think that she didn't care about the things you're supposed to care about as a female at the time.
And, and really was so unapologetically herself and, you know, not crass or anything, but just real, just authentically her, which to me is such a, like in hindsight, when I look back on the time period she grew up in, the way she was raised didn't, feel like that would be, you know, the sort of outcome of her personality.
So I think that she just was a, I don't know, the Elvis part of her, maybe like that she was kind of a big force for better or worse. And my grandmother is very sort of soft. And I think they definitely had a difficult time. And I think that when I watched it as an outsider, it always felt to me that my mom was looking for something that her mom wasn't able to to be or to give her.
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