“Shocking Revelation: Lisa Marie Presley’s Heart-Wrenching Secret After Son Benjamin’s Tragic Death”
Lisa Marie Presley kept her son Benjamin’s body in her home for two months following his death as a way to cope with her grief
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The 54-year-old was the only child of rock icon Elvis Presley, and her book was the perfect window into how she dealt with her son’s death.
“My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months,” Presley wrote. “There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately. I found a very empathic funeral home owner.
“I told her that having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him. She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you. You can have him there.’”
Presley also added, “I think it would scare the living f–king piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.”
Her daughter Riley also weighed in on her mother’s decision.
“It was really important for my mom to have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad,” she said. “And I would go there and sit in there with him.”
Indeed, when Elvis died, his open casket was kept safe in his Graceland estate for approximately two months before he was later buried in the property.
Elvis’s daughter had been vocal about how she dealt with the aftermath of her son’s death
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On National Grief Awareness Day in 2022, Presley had opened up about the loss of her late son in an essay she shared with People.
