Lisa Marie Presley kept her dead son on dry ice for two months before finally arranging his funeral, a new memoir has revealed.

Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, kept her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at her home instead of keeping him in the morgue after he died by suicide in 2020.

According to a memoir started by Presley and finished by her daughter, actress Riley Keough, 35, Benjamin was kept on dry ice because California has no laws dictating when a body must be disposed of.

Daisy Jones & the Six actress Keough said: “It was very important for my mother to have enough time to say goodbye to him, just as she had done with her father.

“And I would sit there with him,” Sky News’ US partner network NBC quotes her as writing.

Presley wrote, “I think it would scare the living bastards out of anyone else if their son was out there like that. But not me.”

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The memoir continues with the recollection of how Presley and her daughter decided to get a tattoo that matched Benjamin’s while his body lay in a room at 55 degrees Celsius.

“Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at her dead son’s body, which happened to be lying next to us in the casitas. I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” Keough wrote .

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