Breaking News: Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, will have a book of memoirs after his death…see more

Roughly a third of the book focuses on Lisa Marie’s childhood years, both with and without her dad and detailing her fraught relationship with her mom, and a sizable section is devoted to Michael Jackson.

“I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die,’“ she remembers. Among many incidents, she describes finding him face down on the floor of his bathroom. He had tried to steady himself on a towel rack, which broke and he collapsed.

The last time she saw Elvis alive, she was coming in from playing racquetball. Her dad gave her a hug and a kiss, they exchanged I love yous, and he told her, “Go to bed.” She woke to a commotion and Elvis was whisked away on a stretcher.

Lisa Marie, 9, went to her bedroom, nervously smoked a cigarette and awaited word. An hour later, she heard her grandfather Vernon wailing, “He’s gone, he’s gone.”

“My life as I knew it was completely over,” she wrote, realizing later, “He’s dead and now I’m stuck with her,” meaning Priscilla.