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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well, I was reading this book.

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Speaker 1: We've interviewed Lisa Marie Presley before and found her engagingly

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Speaker 1: funny and warm and surprisingly charming. Did you agree with that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very much. Yeah, And so I've been reading this book.

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Speaker 1: This is bits of a memoir she set out to

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Speaker 1: write that she recorded bits for and then when she

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Speaker 1: passed away, her daughter, the actress Riley Keo, has taken over.

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Speaker 1: And there's bits from Lisa Marie and bits from Riley,

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Speaker 1: and it's called From Here to the Great Unknown, a memoir.

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Speaker 1: I just thought i'd read out a few bits and pieces.

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Speaker 1: Such an insight into her life. She talks about how

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Speaker 1: she says my mom meaning Priscilla. So this is Lisa

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Speaker 1: Marie saying, my mom was an Air Force brat. She

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Speaker 1: met my dad at fourteen, and her parents allowed it.

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Speaker 1: It was a different time. Back then, women were admitted

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Speaker 1: to the hospital while they were in labor. They'd get

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Speaker 1: knocked out and wake up with a baby. She went

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Speaker 1: into hospital looking glamorous, beautiful, and when she came to

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Speaker 1: she was handed a child. She didn't want to gain

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Speaker 1: pregnancy weight. She thought she wouldn't look good for Elvis's wife.

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Speaker 1: There were many women after them after him, all of

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Speaker 1: them beautiful. She was so upset when she was pregnant

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Speaker 1: that she initially said she'd only eat apples and eggs

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Speaker 1: to never gain weight. I was a pain in her

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Speaker 1: ass immediately, and I always felt she didn't want me.

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Speaker 1: I believe in energy and utero, so maybe I already

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Speaker 1: felt her vibe of trying to get rid of me

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Speaker 1: at the time. She didn't have great maternal instincts. So

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Speaker 1: she's hard on Priscilla through all this because during all

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Speaker 1: of this stuff, when she was a kid, she spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of time her dad indulged her with everything

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Speaker 1: that she would He'd wake up in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the night and say, let's go on the golf carts,

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Speaker 1: and I'd get on these golf carts, and just right

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Speaker 1: around he'd shut down an amusement park for her. They'd

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Speaker 1: sleep all day, and she'd get up late afternoon and

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Speaker 1: everyone would be asleep, but they'd party all night. She

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Speaker 1: was a little kid when all this was happening, and

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Speaker 1: then when her father died and her mother kind of

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Speaker 1: tried to put some well. When the parents broke up,

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Speaker 1: she'd spent a lot of time with Dad, and then

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Speaker 1: when she was with mom, her mother tried to be

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Speaker 1: more strict with her, and she felt her mother was

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Speaker 1: cold and brittle lest Marie would have been what nine

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Speaker 1: when Elvis died, Yeah, she was nine. And so this

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Speaker 1: is what she said here. She said that when her

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Speaker 1: father died. This is the quote. That was the first

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Speaker 1: time I really felt the loss, obviously from my dad passing,

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Speaker 1: but more than anything, I felt I was stuck with

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Speaker 1: this woman. It was a two punch, one two punch.

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Speaker 1: He's dead, and now I'm stuck with her. So her

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Speaker 1: whole life changed a lot, and you could just see

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Speaker 1: she was this kid who had everything but had no anchor.

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Speaker 1: She didn't listen enough, As she says later, she got

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Speaker 1: on with her mother in her afterwards when she was

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Speaker 1: a mother herself, but she careered, careened and careered all

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Speaker 1: over the place and didn't want discipline. She'd scream and

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Speaker 1: scream until she was taken out of school. She was

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Speaker 1: all over the shop and was looking for an anchor

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Speaker 1: and couldn't find one, And bizarrely, she found an anchor

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Speaker 1: in Michael Jackson. And she says that was the most

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Speaker 1: normal she ever felt, which just shows you how crazy

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Speaker 1: her life was. Are you kidding me? And she said

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Speaker 1: he when he didn't have the artifice around him, he

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Speaker 1: was really normal and he was the person who reminded

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Speaker 1: her of her dad red Flag much. But she said,

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Speaker 1: because I didn't judge him. I completely got who he

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Speaker 1: was and why he thought the stuff he thought. We'd

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Speaker 1: come from, and we were now in similar circumstances. Everything

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Speaker 1: about our lives was incredibly abnormal. There was no reason

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Speaker 1: why we shouldn't connect. Hadn't they meet him, Well, they'd

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Speaker 1: met first of all when she was a little kid.

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Speaker 1: She didn't remember any of it. He remembered every detail,

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Speaker 1: even the dress she was wearing, everything, because we asked her,

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Speaker 1: because he did meet there was a time when he

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Speaker 1: met Elvis. That was the time. That was the time time.

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Speaker 1: And then when she started to produce a bit of music,

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Speaker 1: he reached out to her and she just found him

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Speaker 1: instantly warm. They had this instant connection, extraordinary And by

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Speaker 1: then she had two little kids with Danny Keo, and

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Speaker 1: she went home and said, I'm marrying Michael. It was

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Speaker 1: with Danny, Yeah, well kind of bit on and offish,

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Speaker 1: but she said, hey, how about this, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: marry Mike. Here's some news. Yeah, here's some news. And

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Speaker 1: she said this, This is from the book. He told

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Speaker 1: kissed Tatum O'Neil, and he had a thing with Brooks Shields,

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Speaker 1: which hadn't been physical apart from a kiss. He said.

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Speaker 1: but nothing had happened, and so they were Actually she says,

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Speaker 1: it was a very loving, normal relationship in the midst

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Speaker 1: of all of that. But then he was desperate to

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Speaker 1: have children with her, and she didn't feel right about it.

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Speaker 1: And this is a quote. He said, if you're not

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Speaker 1: going to have children with me, then I'm going to

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Speaker 1: find someone he will, who will? He would also say,

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Speaker 1: Debbie Row told me she'll have my children, to which

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Speaker 1: my mother, because this is Riley telling the story, to

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Speaker 1: which my mother would respond jealously, go and beep Debbie Row.

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Speaker 1: And this is what Riley says. All I knew of

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Speaker 1: Debbie was that she was a kind lady who helped

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Speaker 1: me with my ear infections. Wow, she was a nurse.

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Speaker 1: What about this bit I keep reading. Tell me what

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Speaker 1: I'm boring you because this bit's so fascinating. That Michael

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Speaker 1: was about to do an HBO special. This is Lisa

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Speaker 1: Marie writing he didn't want to do it. He feigned

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Speaker 1: a fall and went into hospital, and she started to

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Speaker 1: get a suspicion he was taking some industrial strength drugs.

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Speaker 1: Gave that away. Well, I'll tell you what gave that away.

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Speaker 1: I flew to New York where he was in hospital

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Speaker 1: and was with him every day. His mother was there too,

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Speaker 1: along with his team, including his own aniesotist. And she said,

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Speaker 1: This was a red flag. She said he needed some

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Speaker 1: or deemarole he was taking, which is a giant opioid.

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Speaker 1: She said he needed someone around who could legally administer

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Speaker 1: the drugs. Anyway, the whole relationship started to fall apart,

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Speaker 1: and this is really sad insight. This is one of

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Speaker 1: the things she wrote that she had a son called

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Speaker 1: was born, he was everything to Lisa Marie and she said,

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Speaker 1: here Ben was similar to his grandfather. This is Marie.

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Speaker 1: Lisa Marie is saying He was similar to El, very

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Speaker 1: very similar. He even looked like him. Ben was so

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Speaker 1: much like him it scared me. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: I had the same relationship with Ben that my father

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Speaker 1: had with his mother. He was a generational effing cycle.

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Speaker 1: She said. Gladys loved my dad so much she drank

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Speaker 1: herself to death worrying about him, and then my dad

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Speaker 1: had his demons and acted on them. I have everything

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Speaker 1: my son's got that same genetic makeup. Ben didn't stand

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Speaker 1: an effing chance. So Ben's dead, isn't he? Ben took

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Speaker 1: his own life. He was the sunshine in their lives.

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Speaker 1: He had and he started well. When she, at the

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Speaker 1: age of forty, got a drug addiction, and Ben was

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Speaker 1: so close to her, watching her fall into a spiral

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Speaker 1: put him in a bad place. That's what happened there.

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Speaker 1: And in the midst of all that, you're hearing these

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Speaker 1: stories about her marrying Nicholas Cage. Have I got time

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Speaker 1: to tell you that bit? Not? Really, We've got more

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Speaker 1: about it. I'll give you the rest where it's like

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Speaker 1: a man who's been time story. Nick bought my mom, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: this is not Riley. Nick bought my mom two beautiful

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Speaker 1: old cars, a nineteen fifty nine blue Corvette Convoidable and

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Speaker 1: a Cadillac from the sixties. We went on lots of trips.

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Speaker 1: On one of those trips, she and Nick got into

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Speaker 1: a fight and her sixty five thousand dollars engagement ring

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Speaker 1: ended up in the ocean. A diver was immediately killed

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Speaker 1: out to find it. There was no chance, so he

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Speaker 1: bought her another bigger, more expensive ring. After that, it

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Speaker 1: just goes on and on and the cycle of addiction,

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Speaker 1: and it's such a sad story where no one has

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Speaker 1: in any inner love for themselves. It's an incredible book

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Speaker 1: with more juicy bits. But we've run out of time. No,

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Speaker 1: we haven't run out of time. I'm shutting me down.

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Speaker 1: I'm not shutting you down at all. You can do

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Speaker 1: whatever you want. Well, let's keep reading. Tune in tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: kids for more of Avantage, for another in dorment. We're

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Speaker 1: all gathered around. Look at jim Uri Raie sitting. He says,

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Speaker 1: who's Elvis Coffee