Riley Keough‘s life has been anything but average, which comes as no surprise seeing as she’s the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley — and granddaughter of Elvis Presley. However, Keough remembered her late mother’s marriage with Michael Jackson as one of the more “normal” parts of her life.
The Daisy Jones and The Six star stopped by this morning’s episode of The View to promote Lisa Marie’s posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which Keough finished writing after her mother died in 2023.
The book covers Lisa Marie’s life, from losing her father at a young age, to her marriage with Jackson.
“You were six years old at the time. What are your memories of having Michael Jackson as a stepfather?” Sunny Hostin asked Keough, who immediately quipped, “I had a few stepfathers.”
The co-hosts broke out in laughter, as Keough joked, “You know, they would come and go. Just kidding.”
In all seriousness, Keough remembered her mother’s marriage with the King of Pop as feeling “very normal.”
“I’m aware that my life was not normal to other people,” she added. “But for my experience and my reality it was very normal.”
Lisa Marie had been married to four different men over the course of her short life, including Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage. She reportedly devoted a large section of her upcoming memoir to Jackson, whom she was married to from 1994 to 1996.
The singer recalled feeling “so happy” when she was married to Jackson, who would take her to Disney World every other day. “There was an energy there, something about him that was truly remarkable, something that I’ve never ever seen or felt in my entire life, other than with my dad,” Lisa Marie wrote, per an excerpt obtained by USA Today. “I fell in love with him because he was normal.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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