Priscilla Presley’s pain over secrets from Lisa Marie’s book

Priscilla Presley is ‘blinded’ and ‘devastated’ by many of the secrets uncovered in a blockbuster posthumous memoir by her troubled daughter Lisa Marie.

A source tells RadarOnline that she didn’t expect it to tackle some of the raw and personal topics it did.

Although the couple was in a “good place” at the time of Lisa Marie’s death, that wasn’t always the case.

Lisa Marie writes that shortly after Elvis’ death, she realized that “life as she knew it was completely over,” and that she was now “stuck with her,” meaning Priscilla, 79.

She says that as a teenager she would rather ‘go out on the streets’ than continue living with Priscilla.

Lisa Marie also claims that when she was ten, her mother’s then-boyfriend abused her.

“God knows Priscilla and Lisa Marie had their ups and downs, so reliving some of these things is torturous for her,” the insider said.

“If she had her time again, she would do things very differently. But she is devastated and blindsided by the revelations that Lisa Marie preferred drugs and booze to her mother’s company.”

During her all-too-short life, Lisa Marie Presley struggled to escape her father’s legacy.

But now, through her posthumous memoirs, From here to the great unknownshe can share some personal truths.

With Lisa Marie having begun writing the book before her sudden death last January at the age of 51, the incomplete story has now been completed by her eldest daughter, Riley Keough.

“Few people had the chance to know who my mother really was, other than that she was Elvis’ daughter,” Riley, 35, says.

However, when the memoir was published last month, many readers and some of Presley’s family members were stunned by the most shocking revelations.

As the only child of Elvis and Priscilla, Lisa Marie was in the public eye from birth. The Presleys’ tumultuous marriage ended when Lisa Marie was four, and she vividly remembers Elvis as a “very exciting father.”

In the book, Lisa Marie says that her father would often wake her up in the middle of the night to “get up on the table and sing.” They also rode around their Memphis neighborhood in a custom golf cart!

Lisa Marie was nine when Elvis died at the age of 42 after years of drug abuse.

She remembers a feeling of unease as her father kissed her goodnight for hours before he passed away.

Lisa Marie never got over the trauma of Elvis’ death. She wrote, “There have been nights as an adult where I would just get drunk and listen to his music and sit there and cry. The sadness still comes. It’s still there.”

To cope with Elvis’ death, Lisa Marie turned to drugs in her teens.

It’s a pattern that would repeat itself throughout her life.

To get her off opioids, Lisa Marie was prescribed drugs that Riley says “just made her high even more, because no matter what the normal dose was, she would somehow take five times as much the doctors get”.

Lisa Marie was eventually able to remain sober, although her autopsy revealed oxycodone in her system, which she received after cosmetic surgery.

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