From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Author:Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough [Presley, Lisa Marie & Keough, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

We called Michael “Mimi” because my brother couldn’t pronounce his name. Michael was larger than life; he reminded her of her father. She told me that no one ever came close to being like her dad apart from Michael.

At first, we had no idea if they were in a romantic relationship or if this was just a friend she was bringing around. (I like to joke that she was always really good at introducing her kids to the various husbands.) With Mimi, as with others, we would hang out and do activities together long before she would ever tell us that they were in a relationship.

I don’t remember the moment that she told me they were getting married, but I do recall he started sleeping over.

When he would come over her whole world would stop. The front gate would buzz, and a voice would say, “MJ is here.” The drive from the gate to our house was about six minutes—in that time, my mom would be scurrying around to fix her lips and put her makeup on.

He would come into our kitchen via the back door. Typically, the kitchen counter was covered in piles of NDAs and tabloids that her assistants would lay out for her—OK!, Star, National Enquirer, Globe—so my mom could read all the cover stories about herself. But when Michael came to visit, she didn’t leave the magazines out or ask him to sign an NDA. He was probably the only exception.

Michael and my mother were quickly a very big deal. When significant things were happening in our lives, things that would make the press go crazy, she would take us out of school—we had to stay home until it blew over a little. Once we were back in school, we had security outside all day. And if I went to a sleepover at a friend’s house, security would sit outside all night there, too. My mom was really affected by what people wrote about her. She had no siblings to share the burden, nobody who understood what it truly felt like. In a way she was the princess of America and didn’t want to be.

Her reluctance only made the chase more interesting for the press. There were photographers in trees. My dad was always pushing or fighting some paparazzo.

She genuinely tried her whole life to get away from it. And yet she paradoxically fell in love with Michael Jackson.

Once Michael came into our lives, the fame grew exponentially. I don’t think anyone fully anticipated the scale of it. My mother certainly didn’t. She rarely thought about consequences.

Michael and my mom got married in the Dominican Republic twenty days after her divorce from my father. She told Playboy magazine later that she didn’t even tell her mom about it until Priscilla called her and said, “There are helicopters flying over my house, driving me crazy. They’re saying that you married Michael Jackson.”

My mom just said, “Yup, I did.”

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