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‘My Mom Was P***ed’: Riley Keough Reveals Lisa Marie Presley’s Furious Response to Her Teenage Arrest

Elvis’ granddaughter says she was busted at an illegal party while her mom was out of town.

Actor Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley, was arrested as a teen during a moment of adolescent rebellion, she revealed Wednesday.

During an appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy, the Daisy Jones & The Six star admitted she had a mugshot after being detained as a minor.

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When host Alex Cooper—who earlier in the interview had noted that Keough didn’t have a single publicist or handler with her, unlike most guests—asked what the arrest was for, Keough replied, “I can’t say this! My publi—”

Then she stopped herself mid-word and confessed, “It was for breaking and entering.”

Keough explained that like her late mother Lisa Marie Presley, she went through a rebellious phase as a teen where she would sneak out of the house and hang out with people she wasn’t allowed to see.

One night when she was about 14 or 15, Keough said she went to what she thought was a party at a friend’s house only to discover that the house—which was for sale—didn’t really belong to her friend. The police came and most of the teens got away, but a group of about 10—including Keough—was arrested.

“My mom was p---ed,” Keough said, adding that Presley was in Las Vegas at the time.

“I had to call her and tell her to come back from Vegas and pick me up in prison,” Keough said, laughing.

Presley couldn’t get there in time, so she sent Keough’s aunt to get her daughter. Keough has never seen the mugshot, she said.

Asked if Presley tried to keep the story from appearing in the press, Keough replied, “No, she was like, ‘This is on you, girl.’ [But] luckily it wasn’t in the papers.”

Her mom did ground her for three months, though, including on her birthday.

Keough said that the rebellious phase was something she and her mom, who was Elvis Presley’s only child, had in common. Lisa Marie Presley died suddenly in January 2023 at age 54.

At the time, she was working on a memoir that she had recently asked Keough to help her finish. The book, From Here to the Great Unknown, was published in October.

“I had a moment as a teenager, and she also did,” Keough said of her mother.

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