Priscilla Presley Recalls Difficult Moment She Told A Doctor To Take Daughter Lisa Marie Off Life Support

Priscilla Presley is lifting the lid on the tough decisions she's had to make, and the unfortunate series of events that hit her family in her new memoir "Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis."

In the book, she detailed the devastating moment she decided to take her daughter Lisa Marie Presley off life support as she battled complications that arose after a bariatric surgery.

Priscilla Presley is also fighting back claims she was involved in the death of her ex-husband, rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley.

Priscilla is still hung up on the death of her daughter, Lisa Marie, as she opens up about the painful details behind her final moments in her new book.

Lisa Marie, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla, passed away at the age of 54 in January 2023 after suffering a small bowel obstruction that developed after a bariatric surgery.

Priscilla said the loss is "still" hard on her and the whole family as she recounted the event proceedings leading up to her daughter's death.

"It was the second saddest day of my life, other than losing Elvis," she told People Magazine. "It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that Lisa was gone."

Lisa Marie's ex-husband, Danny Keough, found her unresponsive at home and immediately called the 80-year-old matriarch to meet them at the hospital.

"We were there all day long," Priscilla noted. "Lisa really wasn't breathing, so she was on the ventilator. For hours we were there waiting, hoping and praying until the doctor came in and said, 'Priscilla, I'm so sorry, she's gone.' We just couldn't believe it — didn't want to believe it. It was hard on all of us, it still is."

In an excerpt from the revelatory memoir, Priscilla details the humbling moment she took Lisa Marie off life support as doctors fought to reinstate her respiratory abilities.

She explained that she knew her daughter was "already gone" immediately she walked into her hospital room, as the singer was "hooked to a machine that was breathing for her."

There was "little brain activity," and Lisa Marie's vibrant spirit wasn't there, although they kept hope alive, the 80-year-old added.

Family members surrounded Priscilla as they all waited for the doctors to share encouraging news about her daughter's condition, only to be greeted by a "code blue" alarm from Lisa's room because her "heart had stopped."

"The next thing I remember is the doctor talking to me. He asked me what I wanted him to do. They had restarted Lisa's heart, but there was no guarantee it would keep beating. I asked the doctor, 'What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?'"Priscilla asked in her memoir.

"He looked at me with compassion and shook his head. 'No quality of life at all,'" she continued. "I thought about my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life."

"I said what I had to. 'Take her off the machine, Doctor.' My voice was barely above a whisper," Priscilla added.

Elsewhere in her book, Priscilla detailed grieving for her grandson, Benjamin Keough, whom Lisa shares with her ex-husband Danny Keough, as well as helping her 38-year-old son Navarone, whom she shares with ex Marco Garibaldi, get clean from drug addiction.

The Presley matriarch had to mourn her grandson, who died by suicide at age 27 in 2020, three years before her daughter passed.

"It hasn't been easy at all," Priscilla says. "But you have to find strength."

However, she has taken consolation in the fact that everybody is doing well now, as her son Navarone is sober and in "a good place."

She also takes joy in being grandmother to Riley Keough, whom Lisa Marie also shared with Danny, as well as great-grandmother to Riley's two children with her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen.

"That's what makes me happy: knowing everyone is doing well," Priscilla explained.

Meanwhile, Priscilla has been hit with disturbing allegations that she pushed her ex-husband, Elvis Presley, to his death.

The rock 'n' roll icon, whom she divorced in 1973, died at age 42 in 1977 from what was originally claimed to be a heart attack.

However, toxicology reports later identified high levels of several pharmaceutical drugs in the musician's system.

In an amended lawsuit, Priscilla's former business partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, alleged that she was involved in her ex-husband's death as she wasn't satisfied with the divorce settlement she got from him.

"Despite enriching herself and extorting millions of dollars from Elvis, she then placed a lien on Graceland on or around April 29, 1977, in the amount of $494,024.49, adding pressure to Elvis less than four months before he died," the lawsuit stated, per Fox News.

Kruse and Fialko added that this "exerted undue pressure" on Elvis and pushed "him to his death."

Priscilla's lawyer, Marty Singer, has since responded to the claims, saying she "did not have anything to do with the assassination of JFK, she did not cover up Area 51, she did not fake the moon landing, and she is not secretly keeping Bigfoot locked in a cabin in Canada. Take off the aluminum foil hat and face reality."

"This lawsuit concerns Ms. Presley's claims against Ms. Kruse (and her co-conspirators) in which she alleges that Ms. Kruse engaged in a relentless and calculated campaign of elder abuse and fraud in order to take control of Ms. Presley's finances for her own benefit," Singer added.

He continued, "Ms. Kruse's allegations are absurd and despicable, but unfortunately, are not surprising. Ms. Presley looks forward to holding Ms. Kruse and her co-conspirators liable for their wrongful acts."