Lisa Marie Presley wrote about her opioid addiction in her posthumous memoir, From Here To The Great Unknown.

In the book, Presley – who died in January 2023 from a small intestine blockage – explains that she became addicted to painkillers after the birth of her twins in 2008 and was taking a worrying amount of pills per day at the height of her addiction.

“It increased to eighty tablets a day. It always took longer to get high, and I honestly don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But at some point he decides,” says Presley. the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, wrote.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY had son Benjamin’s body in her home for two months after his death

Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12, 2023 at the age of 54. (Christopher Polk)

She continued: “I believe that we are all born innocent and that everyone’s nature is inherently good, but they are fed by their environment. And I think that my brain is different, that I’m addicted. Otherwise.”, I would have had all those years, ranging from being a stupid teenager to suddenly becoming addicted to drugs at forty.

Presley explained that she started taking the pills for “recreational purposes,” but they quickly became “absolutely addictive.”

“It increased to eighty tablets a day. It always took longer to get high, and I honestly don’t know when your body decides it can’t handle it anymore. But at some point he’ll decide.”

–Lisa Marie Presley

“If I had completely run out of medication I would have been either in hospital or dead due to the severity of the withdrawal. My blood pressure would have skyrocketed,” she wrote.

Presley’s daughter Riley Keough was also the author of the posthumous memoir. “My mother started taking opioids for pain after her C-section and then progressed to taking them to sleep,” Keough wrote.

Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Priscilla and Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie’s daughter, Riley Keough, was the author of her posthumous memoir. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

“She had turned forty in February 2008; my sisters were born the same year (I would turn twenty the following May),” she continued. “After her brief use of drugs as a teenager, she never touched them again. She drank, but like she said, as an adult she wouldn’t even take Advil or Tylenol.”

Keough, 35, said her mother often warned her about the dangers of drug use.

“Throughout my life, she often said, ‘If I tried drugs, it would be over for me.’ I now understand that this was such a strong indication of an addiction problem that she had an inkling of,” she wrote.

Lisa Marie Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54. (Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images)

“I think it was subconscious, but it haunted her. She had held back on Scientology, child-rearing, marriages, and spirituality. But it was there the whole time, like a shadow. She would say, “My father was forty-two when he died, I’m thirty-nine…”

Do you like what you’re reading? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Keough added: “We could never have imagined that it would be something that would affect her so brutally so late in life.”

After Presley was hospitalized for her addiction, she was transferred to a court-ordered rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. Keough explained that she was “weaned” off opioids with medications like “Suboxone, Seroquel and Gabapentin.”

Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley at a screening of “Elvis” in 2022. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

Keough wrote that her mother decided to have bariatric surgery while she was in rehab because she had been “harassed her whole life for being fat.”

“The surgery was something she had always wanted,” she noted.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER

“It was a strange time in rehab to decide to have surgery. She wasn’t finished with her program yet. I remember being worried that there was a possibility of taking the medication for a little longer. I didn’t feel like she was ready for this. “Be sober,” Keough wrote.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley had their only child together in 1968. (Getty Images)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

In January 2023, Presley died of a small intestinal obstruction, a long-term complication of bariatric surgery. She was 54.