With the help of daughter Riley Keough, the late Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir is finally out in the world. In the book From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie made more than a few surprising revelations about her past â including her relationships. While talking about one of her most high-profile romances, Lisa divulged that Michael Jackson was still a virgin at 35 when the two dated and how it affected their relationship.
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Lisa Marie and Michael were married from 1994 to 1996.
They’d known each other since they were young, though they were 10 years apart in age. When they married, Michael was 35 while Lisa Marie was 25.
Lisa Marie was still married to Danny Keough, the father of Lisa Marie’s two oldest children (Riley and the late Benjamin Keough), when her longtime friend, Michael, made a confession to her she couldn’t ignore.
Michael confessed he was in love with Lisa Marie during a trip to Las Vegas.
âMichael said,â I donât know if youâve noticed, but Iâm completely in love with you. I want us to get married and for you to have my children,ââ Lisa Marie wrote, via People. âI didnât say anything immediately, but then I said, âIâm really flattered, I canât even talk.â By then, I felt I was in love with him too.”
This led to Michael sharing something surprising with Lisa Marie.
Though Michael had been in other romantic relationships at this point, he was still a virgin, as he told his then-girlfriend.
“I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal, and he’d had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn’t been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened,” she wrote. “I was terrified because I didn’t want to make the wrong move.”
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This isn't the first time Lisa Marie has opened up about her romance with Michael.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey following Michael’s 2009 death, Lisa Marie spoke warmly of their marriage, though she did admit there were times that things became tough between them.
“I loved taking care of him,” she said at the time. “It was one of the highest points in my life when things were going really well, and he and I were united. It was a very profound time of my life.”
Lisa Marie's memoir is out now.
It couldn’t have been easy for Riley to put together this retelling of Lisa Marie’s life after her mother’s death, but it is good to know that her story is finally able to be told in her own words.
From Here to the Great Unknown is on sale now.
