Priscilla Presley is alleged to have described in unpublished memoir pages the second she authorised docs to take away her daughter Lisa Marie Presley from life assist.
Priscilla Presley is alleged to have described in unpublished memoir pages the second she authorised docs to take away her daughter Lisa Marie Presley from life assist
The 80-year-old is claimed to have detailed the alleged occasion in two pages reported to be a part of her forthcoming memoir Softly, As I Depart You: Life After Elvis.
The pages had been filed as reveals in an amended criticism lodged in Los Angeles by Priscilla’s former enterprise companions Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, in keeping with Web page Six.
Within the alleged excerpts, Priscilla is claimed to recall being at a San Fernando Valley hospital following Lisa Marie’s admission in 2023 with a small bowel obstruction linked to an earlier bariatric surgical procedure, after she was rushed in for therapy in January that 12 months forward of her loss of life aged 54.
Priscilla apparently wrote: “The subsequent factor I bear in mind is the physician speaking to me. He requested me what I wished him to do.
“They’d restarted Lisa’s coronary heart, however there was no assure it might hold beating.”
Priscilla allegedly then mentioned she requested the medical crew: “What sort of life will she have if we hold her on that machine?”
She is claimed to have written the physician “checked out me with compassion and shook his head” as he mentioned: “No high quality of life in any respect”.
The alleged account continued: “I thought of my lady, my wild, rebellious, passionate lady, mendacity in a vegetative state for the remainder of her life.
“‘Take her off the machine, Physician,’ I mentioned in a voice barely above a whisper.
“It was insufferable. I started to sob. I don’t bear in mind falling. After that, every part went darkish… I don’t wish to bear in mind.”
Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko declare of their ongoing $50 million fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit towards Priscilla that she acted prematurely for monetary causes, in violation of Lisa Marie’s superior healthcare directive.
Priscilla’s attorneys Wayne Harman and Marty Singer beforehand dismissed the claims as “shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless”.
In a brand new assertion to Rolling Stone, they added: “Priscilla didn’t have something to do with the assassination of JFK, she didn’t cowl up Space 51, she didn’t pretend the moon touchdown, and she or he isn’t secretly conserving Bigfoot locked in a cabin in Canada.
“Take off the aluminum foil hat and face actuality.”
They accused Brigitte of pursuing “a relentless and calculated marketing campaign of elder abuse and fraud as a way to take management of Ms Presley’s funds for her personal profit”.
Priscilla filed a countersuit within the case in 2024.
Her rivals’ lawyer Jordan Matthews responded: “To this point, Ms Presley has introduced zero proof in assist of her salacious claims, and we intend to carry her accountable for her reckless habits.”
Lisa Marie, the one youngster of Elvis Presley, died on 12 January 2023 after struggling a cardiac arrest.
She was mom to 4 youngsters and pre-deceased by her son Benjamin Keough, who took his life in 2020 aged 27.