Priscilla Presley Was ‘Concerned’ About Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson

Priscilla Presley was never a fan of her daughter’s marriage to Michael Jackson.

Priscilla, 80, admitted she “pretty much” said two sentences to the late singer during Lisa Marie’s marriage to him from 1994 to 1996.

“I knew enough about him, about Michael,” she said in a Tuesday, August 26, appearance on “JAM Nation with Jonesy & Amanda.” “He loved people in the business. He loved actors, he loved people that were famous. I was just really concerned because my daughter was famous and the daughter of the most famous man, really, in rock and roll.”

“So I was very concerned about my daughter and his situation with her, and she knew it,” she continued. “She knew I wasn’t for it. But I had to back off.”

Lisa Marie, who died in 2023 at age 54, is the only daughter of Priscilla and Elvis Presley. (Priscilla also shares son Navarone Garibaldi, 38, with ex partner Marco Garibaldi.)

Priscilla also weighed in on Jackson’s distinctive voice, which ranged from high-pitched to a much lower tone, depending on the situation.

“He always had that high voice with me,” she said. “He didn’t let go of that. I did hear a little bit when we were at his home when he was talking to the guy who took care of him and did errands for him, and he did have another voice. I don’t know where that came from. I don’t think he ever wanted to lose that little boy in him.”

Lisa Marie and Jackson, who died in 2009, married just 20 days after her divorce from her first husband, Danny Keough. She and Keough shared two children, daughter Riley, 36, and son Benjamin, who died in 2020 at age 27. She also had twin girls, Harper and Finley, 16, with Michael Lockwood, to whom she was married from 2006 to 2021.

Looking back on it, Priscilla believes Benjamin’s death played a role in Lisa Marie’s passing three years later.

“That was my biggest fear because I knew she adored him so much,” Priscilla said. “He was the love of her life. When he passed, a bit of her passed. Every day. She didn’t want to be here any longer … she had sunk so low and missed him so much. She knew that she had her twins but she just couldn’t take the loss of Ben.”

Priscilla herself has called the aftermath of Ben’s death “some of the darkest days of her family’s lives.

“The shock of losing Ben has been devastating,” she said in a Facebook statement at the time. “Trying to put all the pieces together of all the possible whys has penetrated my soul. Each day I wake up I pray it will get better.”