From here to the great unknown, last words of the only child of an American icon

Lisa Marie was, throughout her life, before I even knew her, one of the most inspiring people by her fierce energy and what she infused in every person she crossed path with.

I would've loved meeting her, but with her intimate thoughts, it seemed like i spent a few hours close to her, however always at a distance, as if we were watching her life. Or maybe more like she was telling me all she was going through.

Lisa Marie told us about her childhood, smashing golf carts in Graceland, the unconditional love she felt for her dad, being upstairs, just the two of them. About feeling death approaching him a few days before she found his body on the bathroom floor.

About living in Los Angeles with her mother, the heartbreak and the gaping hole of an absence that will haunt her throughout her life. Getting sent to schools, one after the other, never feeling in the right place, looking for a meaning in any of this. About her lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, her soulmate, about being married to Michael Jackson, all the similarities with her father. About motherhood, and the need and instinct to protect her children through anything, as she had not know it. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. About her deeply spiritual soul.

Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

We never knew another beautiful soul as her’s.

At the end, I took my time to finish it, knowing the end but I didn’t want to let this woman go.

I’m still not completely out of it to be honest.