Lisa Marie Presley Through the Years: Marriages, Music Career, Addiction Struggles and More

13.01.2023 - 02:37 / usmagazine.com

Rock and roll royalty. Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, followed in her father’s footsteps by pursuing music.

The Tennessee native released three albums over the course of her career — To Whom It May Concern (2003), Now What (2005) and Storm & Grace (2012) — and paid homage to the King by recording duets using tracks that the “Hound Dog” singer released before his death in 1977.

Lisa — the sole heir to her father’s estate — was only nine when the musical legend passed away. After seeing Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 film Elvis, the “Shine” singer said she was “moved to tears.”

“Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father’s heart and soul beautifully,” she wrote via Instagram in May 2022 next to a picture of the biopic’s promotional poster. “In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully. (If he doesn’t get an Oscar for this, I will eat my own foot, haha.)”

After suffering loss in her early childhood, the singer-songwriter faced her fair share of struggles in her teen years and into adulthood as well.

“[I used] cocaine, sedatives, pot and drinking — all at the same time. I just couldn’t be sober,” Lisa told Paper Magazine in 2003, recalling her teenage drug use. “I don’t know how I lived through it.”

In 2016, the “Dirty Laundry” musician entered a rehab program for a prescription pill addiction. Three years later, she penned a forward for Harry Nelson’s book, The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation In Pain, opening up about her struggles for the first time.

“I had never openly spoken in public about my own addiction to opioids and painkillers,” Lisa wrote in the March 2019 essay, revealing that she became addicted