Lisa Marie Presley’s Daughter Riley Keough Revealed The Harsh Advice Her Late Mother Gave Her

Riley Keough, the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared some meaningful but blunt advice her mother gave her about being a celebrity child.

Keough, 35, appeared on the Wednesday, December 11 episode of Podcrushed, where she explained to the hosts Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin how Lisa Marie’s words stuck with her.

“My mom was very intense about being a celebrity’s child,” the Under the Bridge actress said. “She was basically like, ‘If you’re gonna do anything, you’re gonna be like, a joke to a lot of people. So if you’re gonna do something, you have to be really good at it. You can’t just try it.”

“I felt a lot of pressure, I think. And so that was kind of in my head and in my brother’s head,” Keough added. “She was very much like, ‘You can’t just be a celebrity kid. If you’re gonna act or sing or whatever you’re gonna do, you have to be better at it or as good as everybody else.'”

Keough pointed out that both she and her late brother Benjamin, who died in 2020 at age 27, held Lisa Marie’s words close to them and worked hard to prove themselves. Lisa Marie died in January 2023 at age 54 of bowel obstruction.

Although Keough chose to head down the acting path, she has been incredibly busy and successful. Over the past few years, she appeared in films like 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, 2016’s American Honey, and 2020’s Zola. Keough also starred as the title character in Amazon Prime’s Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictitious series inspired by Fleetwood Mac, which allowed the actress to show off her inherited vocal talent.