Priscilla Presley is revisiting Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage's dramatic relationship.
“I favored Nicolas Cage from the start. Regardless of his stormy mood (which my daughter shared), he has a great coronary heart and an important capability for love. … Sadly, the kinetic attraction that drew them collectively additionally made it troublesome for them to remain collectively,” Priscilla, 80, wrote in her memoir, Softly As I Depart You, which hit stands on Tuesday, September 23. “They weren't solely romantically passionate but in addition passionate, interval.”
Priscilla added that her daughter, whom she welcomed with Elvis Presley in 1968, had “inherited” her father's “mood alongside together with his beauty.” She claimed Cage, now 61, “might match her in a struggle toe to toe.”
“And oh my gosh, how they fought. They screamed they usually yelled, they threw issues, and generally they broke issues. They broke up,” she alleged. “And the subsequent day, or fairly near it, they made up. Lisa and Nick broke up and made up so many instances, it was dizzying.”
Priscilla claimed that Lisa Marie and Cage's “answer” to deliver stability into their relationship was to get married, which they did in 2002.
“Watching the connection was like watching a cleaning soap opera. I used to be not shocked once they proceeded with plans for his or her marriage ceremony,” she penned. “Although I had little hope that the wedding would final, I did my finest to be optimistic.”
Whereas Priscilla was apprehensive about Lisa Marie's marriage ceremony day, she recalled how her daughter “appeared lovely in a conventional marriage ceremony costume.” Nevertheless, her worries manifested three months later, when Cage filed for divorce.
“Lisa referred to as to inform me it was taking place,” she wrote. “She later described their relationship by saying she and Nick had been like tyrannical pirates. When one pirate marries one other, they sink the ship. It was an apt description.”
Lisa Marie and Cage finalized their divorce in 2004. Priscilla famous that regardless of the pair's “tumultuous” relationship, they had been capable of stay “associates.”
“Nick later instructed Barbara Walters that he nonetheless missed Lisa daily, but when they obtained again collectively, issues would finish the identical manner,” she recalled. “They had been higher off as associates. I feel they each gained a bit knowledge from the connection.”
When Lisa Marie died at age 54 in January 2023 as a result of cardiac arrest, Cage honored his late ex-wife.
“That is devastating information,” the actor instructed The Hollywood Reporter on the time. “Lisa had the best chortle of anybody I ever met. She lit up each room, and I'm heartbroken. I discover some solace believing she is reunited together with her son Benjamin.”
Lisa Marie Presley was married 4 instances all through her life — and every relationship sparked extra curiosity within the public eye. The daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley grew up within the highlight, and it wasn't lengthy earlier than her personal private life started to make headlines. Lisa Marie adopted in her father's footsteps, pursuing […]
Lisa Marie's demise got here three years after her son, Benjamin, died by suicide at age 27 in 2020. (Along with Benjamin, Lisa was mom to daughter Riley Keough and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood)
“My lovely lovely angel, I worshipped the bottom you walked on, on this earth and now in Heaven. My coronary heart and soul went with you,” Lisa Marie wrote by way of an Instagram tribute on what would have been Benjamin's twenty eighth birthday. “The depth of the ache is suffocating and bottomless with out you each second of daily. I'll by no means be the identical.”
She continued, “Please look ahead to me my love, and maintain my hand whereas I keep to proceed to guard and lift your little sisters and to be right here for Riley. I do know you'll need that. Completely happy Birthday my candy candy Boy. You had been a lot too good for this world.”
