Austin Butler Recalls ‘Immediate’ Bond With Late Lisa Marie Presley: ‘She Just Opened Up To Me’

Austin Butler, 31, spoke astir his enslaved with the precocious Lisa Marie Presley when helium appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon January 30. The Oscar nominee recalled meeting Elvis Presley‘s girl astatine Graceland, wherever they screened the Elvis movie for the archetypal time, and said that anterior to that brushwood helium had “never had had an acquisition wherever I met somebody and felt an contiguous extent of narration to them.” Austin described Lisa Marie — who died at the property of 54 connected January 12 aft suffering cardiac arrest — arsenic “a idiosyncratic who didn’t truly person thing to beryllium and wouldn’t unfastened up to everybody.” Austin added, “And she conscionable opened up to me.”

Austin Butler and Lisa Marie Presley astatine the 2023 Golden Globes (Photo: Shutterstock for HFPA)

Austin explained that helium and Lisa Marie “got truthful adjacent truthful fast,” and called her tragic death “just devastating.” Lisa Marie passed distant conscionable days aft her and her mother Priscilla Presley, 77, watched Austin win a Golden Globe for his show successful Baz Luhrmann‘s movie. “It’s weird successful moments similar this due to the fact that it’s truthful bittersweet,” Austin explained to Jimmy Fallon. “So overmuch large worldly is happening, but I’m conscionable devastated for her household and for her to not beryllium present celebrating with us,” the Disney Channel alum said. “And to get to beryllium with her astatine the Golden Globes, I’ll ne'er hide that for the remainder of my life,” helium added.

Austin besides confirmed to Jimmy that it was Lisa Marie who showed him Elvis’ slippers astatine the Presley family’s historic Graceland location successful Memphis, Tenn. “I get goosebumps,” helium said. “That was aft we screened the movie and his chamber is simply a spot astir radical ne'er get to see, and she said, ‘I wanna amusement you something.’ She took maine up there. Moments similar that, we conscionable sat successful his bedroom, and up there, he’s not Elvis, he’s conscionable dad,” Austin besides said. “Truly I’ll treasure that forever.”

After Lisa Marie’s passing, Austin attended her funeral astatine Graceland connected Sunday, January 22. He was joined by his woman Kaia Gerber, 21. Two days later, Austin received his archetypal information for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his show arsenic Elvis. The histrion released a connection aft his information wherever he honored Lisa Marie and said that he’s “grateful” she got to spot the biopic and was supportive of Austin’s show arsenic her iconic dad.

Lisa Marie is survived by her 3 daughters: histrion Riley Keough, 33, and 14-year-old twins Harper and Finley. Her son, Benjamin Keough, died by termination successful 2020 astatine the property of 27. It was Priscilla who confirmed that her girl had passed distant connected Jan. 12. “It is with a dense bosom that I indispensable stock the devastating quality that my beauteous girl Lisa Marie has near us,” she shared to AP. “She was the astir passionate beardown and loving pistillate I person ever known,” Priscilla besides said.

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