Lisa Marie Presley Claimed She Was Sexually Abused as a Child by Mother’s Ex

A posthumous memoir by Lisa Marie Presley details horrifying sexual abuse the singer claimed she suffered as a child at the hands of her mother Priscilla Presley’s ex-boyfriend, Page Six reported. When Lisa Marie was 10, Priscilla’s ex-boyfriend, actor Mike Edwards, came into her room in the middle of the night and molested her, according to the book From Here to the Great Unknown, a memoir that Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley, was writing at the time of her death in 2023. Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough finished the book, which was published Tuesday by Penguin Random House. Lisa Marie immediately told her mother Priscilla that Edwards had molested her, but although Priscilla made Edwards apologize, the abuse allegedly continued. Edwards began spanking Lisa Marie while he presumably masturbated, and when she showed her mother the bruises, Priscilla asked her daughter, “Well what did you do to cause that?” Lisa Marie claimed. Edwards admitted in his 1988 book Elvis, Priscilla and Me, that he “craved Lisa Marie sexually,” according to Page Six. Priscilla did sometimes confront him about the alleged abuse, but he would say he was drunk or that Lisa Marie was flirting with him. In a statement to The Daily Beast, Edwards said he “never molested Lisa Marie and am shocked at the suggestion that I did,” adding that he’d been “encouraged to embellish a harmless anecdote about Lisa Marie in my memoir from the 1980s and now regret that I did.”