Actor Riley Keough stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to discuss her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir.
Random House published From Here to the Great Unknown on Tuesday. The singer had been working on the memoir before her death last year at the age of 54; Keough finished the book after listening to voice recordings her mother had recorded. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the book as “a moving portrait of a life lived on the further reaches of the bizarre planet of American celebrity.”
Meyers noted that Presley had asked Keough to help write the book before her death; he asked Keough about her reaction to that request.
“She wasn’t someone who liked talking about herself,” Keough said. “She said, ‘You know me more than anyone else knows me, and would you help me finish it?’ And I said ‘Yes,’ but I wasn’t really thinking much of it, and then she passed away like a month later.”
Meyers asked Keough what it was like listening to her mother’s tapes after her death.
“At first, it was difficult, and then, once I was hours into it, it kind of just became a different thing, and there’s really funny stories in there as well,” she said. “So it was all of the emotions.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
