Lisa Marie Presley talks about her marriage to Michael Jackson in her autobiography

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Lisa Marie Presley: Michael Jackson “confessed to me that he was a virgin”

In her autobiography – and in an exclusive excerpt from it in star – tells Lisa Marie Presley about her first date with Michael Jackson and the addiction that killed him.

In an exclusive chapter excerpt from her autobiography “From Here into the Unknown,” Lisa Marie Presley provides for the first time deeper insights into her infamous marriage to Michael Jackson. The two dated for two years in the 1990s, and Presley describes the ups and downs of this extraordinary relationship. The King of Rock’n’Roll’s daughter and later wife of the King of Pop died last January, but her daughter Riley Keough recorded her mother’s memories.

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson’s first meeting

Presley begins by looking back at the beginnings of their relationship, which was marked by intense attraction. “It was like a dream,” is how she describes her first encounters with the King of Pop, adding that she was immediately drawn to him. It is clear in their stories that despite the public interest and media criticism, the two had a deep emotional connection that held them together.

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When they met, Jackson was still a virgin

A particularly intimate part of the excerpt deals with Michael Jackson’s personal love life, particularly the fact that he was a virgin at the start of their relationship. “He confessed to me that he was a virgin. I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal once, and he had something going on with Brooke Shields, but there had been nothing physical other than a kiss. He said Madonna had also tried to get married once. to sleep with him, but nothing happened.”

Pills ruled the King of Pop’s life

Lisa Marie also gives open information about the reasons for the relationship’s failure and reports how Michael Jackson’s increasing pill addiction caused the relationship to falter. Lisa Marie tells how “back then, Michael often went to the doctor. I picked him up and he was completely lost. I think they were Demerol injections. He said he needed them because of his scalp injury, but it was clear to me that There was a longer story behind it, something big.”

In the end, addiction won

Someone from Michael’s family had already told her back then that Michael Jackson was addicted to pills and had also sought treatment for an addiction in Switzerland. But the addiction apparently could not be cured because Michael Jackson was increasingly absent and no longer reliable as a partner, so Lisa Marie Presley finally filed for divorce in 1996.