Always on his mind. Austin Butler mourning the death of Lisa Marie Presley after shooting her father Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis.
“My heart breaks for Riley, Finley, Harper and Priscilla over the brutal and senseless death of Lisa Marie,” Butler, 31, said in a statement to I WILL! News on Friday, January 13. “I am forever grateful for the time I was lucky enough to be close to her bright light and forever cherish the quiet times we shared. Her warmth, her love will always be remembered and its truth.
We every week It was confirmed on Friday, January 12, that the Tennessee resident was hospitalized after undergoing cardiac arrest. A few hours later, his mother, Priscilla Presleyit has been announced that Lisa Marie has died at the age of 54.
“It is with a heavy heart that I have to share the terrible news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” said the 77-year-old, who was married to Elvis Presley from 1967 to 1973. Canada in a word. “She was the strongest and most loving woman I have ever known. We are asking for privacy as we try to process this deep loss. Thank you for your love and prayers. At this time there is no say more.”
Austin Butler and Lisa Marie Presley.
Eric Charbonneau/ShutterstockTwo days before his reception, Lisa Marie and his mother cheered on Butler at the 2023 Golden Globes, where he was nominated for his performance in Elvis. When Keep Diaries The alum took the stage to accept his first ever Golden Globe, thanking the late rock star’s family for their support.
“Thank you for opening your heart, your memories [and] your home to me,” Butler said Tuesday, January 10. “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever.”
of the Dune: Part Two The actor received critical acclaim for including the “Jailhouse Rock” crooner in the 2022 biopic. Before his Golden Globe win, Butler spoke with Elvis’ only daughter about the main task.
“You look at your dad, you look at him on stage and you just go, ‘How are you doing?'” he said in the June 2022 special. Just Elvis. “It’s amazing, and it’s hard not to realize that you’re small in comparison and you’re not good enough. And so, for me, all those things that I could find pressed into his soul and then it became something that took me.”
Lisa Marie couldn’t celebrate Butler’s performance at the time. “It looks like he drained her,” she said. “He put everything he had, his heart, his soul, everything he had into research, reading, watching, learning. He honored her in every way.
A month earlier, the singer of “You’ve Never Seen It” encouraged his Twitter followers to support the film. “I’ve seen Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis twice now,” he wrote in May 2022. “I’ll tell you it’s amazing. Very beautiful. Austin Butler played the my heart and soul are beautiful.
Before her death, Lisa Marie experienced ups and downs in the public eye. His father died in August 1977, four years after finalizing his divorce from Priscilla. The “Sticks and Stones” artist has been married four times: i Danny Keough from 1988 to 1994, to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996, to Nicolas Cage from 2002 to 2004 Michael Lockwood from 2006 to 2021.
Along with Priscilla, Lisa Marie is survived by her eldest daughter, Riley Keoughwho joined Danny, 58. The former husband’s son, Benjamin Keough, died in a homicide in July 2020 at the age of 27. Lisa Marie is also the mother of twin daughters Harper and Finley , which she welcomed with Lockwood, 61, in October. 2008.
