Overview

• Presley writes that physicians reported minimal brain activity and said continued ventilation would offer no quality of life, leading her to authorize removal from life support.
• Her account describes a code blue, a restarted heartbeat, and hours at the bedside as family members came in to say goodbye.
• Lisa Marie Presley died on Jan. 12, 2023 at age 54 from a small bowel obstruction linked to prior bariatric surgery, after ex-husband Danny Keough found her unresponsive and called Priscilla.
• Priscilla calls the day the second saddest of her life after losing Elvis and reflects on the family's earlier loss of grandson Benjamin Keough in 2020.
• The excerpt appears from Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis, out Sept. 23 from Grand Central Publishing, and also notes son Navarone Garibaldi’s sobriety and Presley’s joy in Riley Keough’s growing family.