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Priscilla Presley remembered her precocious grandson, Benjamin Keough, 3 years aft his decease connected Wednesday, July 12. The 78-year-old ex-wife of Elvis Presley took to Instagram to pay tribute to Benjamin by posting a graphic of a rose. “Needless to say, this has been a precise solemn time for maine – the day of the passing of my saccharine grandson Ben,” she captioned the picture. “Words cannot explicit however overmuch you are missed.”
Benjamin took his ain life astatine the property of 27 successful his Calabasas, Calif. location connected Sunday, July 12, 2020. He was survived by his grandmother, his parent Lisa Marie Presley, father, Danny Keough, and sisters, Riley Keough and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood. Sadly, his parent died in January astatine a Los Angeles infirmary aft being treated for cardiac arrest.
Lisa Marie blamed herself for her son’s death, which she confessed successful an intimate essay conscionable 5 months earlier her ain death. She besides said she felt harsh judgement by the public. “I already conflict with and bushed myself up tirelessly and chronically, blaming myself each azygous time and that’s hard capable to present unrecorded with,” she said. “But others volition justice and blasted you too, adjacent secretly oregon down your backmost which is adjacent much cruel and achy connected apical of everything else.” She did, however, find immoderate alleviation by joining enactment groups. “Nothing, perfectly NOTHING takes distant the pain, but uncovering enactment tin sometimes assistance you consciousness a small spot little alone,” she noted.
Lisa Marie Presley and Benjamin Keough airs astatine the 2012 Billboard Music Awards (Photo: Splashnews)
Lisa Marie besides said she lone carried connected for her 3 girls. “It’s a existent prime to support going, 1 that I person to marque each azygous time and 1 that is perpetually challenging to accidental the slightest … But I support going for my girls,” the hurting parent wrote. “I support going due to the fact that my lad made it precise wide successful his last moments that taking attraction of his small sisters and looking retired for them were connected the forefront of his concerns and his mind. He perfectly adored them and they him.”
Following Benjamin’s death, Priscilla said she was perfectly devastated successful a Facebook station she shared. “These are immoderate of the darkest days of my family’s life. The daze of losing Ben has been devastating,” she penned. “Trying to enactment each the pieces unneurotic of each the imaginable whys has penetrated my soul.”
“Each time I aftermath up I commune it volition get better,” she continued. “Then, I deliberation of my girl and the symptom she is going done arsenic she was a doting mother. Ben’s father, Danny, who is wholly lost, arsenic Ben was his lone son. Riley, truthful loving and truthful adjacent to him; Harper and Finley, who perfectly adored Ben. Navarone, who struggles profoundly with nonaccomplishment and death. Rest In Peace Ben, you were loved.”
Benjamin Keough was the lone grandson of Priscilla Presley (Photo: Shutterstock)
A fewer months aft Benjamin’s death, his friend, instrumentalist Brandon Howard, gave penetration into Benjamin’s regular beingness and the accent helium perpetually felt. “Sometimes he struggled with depression, which is simply a superior happening with [the coronavirus pandemic] and everything happening close present and everybody being locked successful the house,” helium described to PEOPLE.
He besides said Benjamin felt immense “pressure” to unrecorded up to the Presley family name. “That benignant of unit is decidedly a portion of what happened. It’s a pugnacious happening erstwhile you person a batch of unit with your household and surviving up to a sanction and an image. It’s a batch of pressure,” Brandon explained. “It’s astir similar you’re pressured into having to beryllium a musician, having to beryllium an actor. It was bully for him to spell astir the satellite and observe himself and person his ain friends. You ne'er cognize what triggers it. You ne'er cognize … It’s truthful random.”
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