Priscilla Presley Speaks Out About Grandson Benjamin Keough’s “Devastating” Death – E! NEWS

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Lisa Marie Presley’s Son Benjamin Keough’s Explanation for Dying

Priscilla Presley is in “shock” over her grandson Benjamin Keough‘s surprising death.

The son of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough handed away July 12 at the age of 27. Following an autopsy, the Los Angeles County Dept. of Clinical Examiner-Coroner’s administrative middle acknowledged that Benjamin’s reason for death was intraoral shotgun injure, whereas the form of death was ruled a suicide.

On Wednesday, July 22, Priscilla mourned the death of her grandson in a put up on her Facebook web page. “These are about a of the darkest days of my family’s existence. The shock of dropping Ben has been devastating,” she wrote in her first public utter on Ben’s passing. “Trying to place the total pieces together of the total seemingly whys has penetrated my soul.”

Priscilla, who shared daughter Lisa Marie with the late Elvis Presley, went to write that she wakes up day after day praying that “it would possibly presumably enhance.”

“Then, I deem of my daughter and the pains she goes thru as she was a doting mother,” Priscilla persisted. “Ben’s father, Danny, who’s entirely misplaced, as Ben was his handiest son.”

Priscilla accepted that she’s furthermore pondering of Ben’s sister, actress Riley Keough, who was “so loving and so terminate to him,” as successfully as Lisa Marie’s twins, Harper and Finley, who “completely adored Ben,” and Ben’s uncle, Navarone Garibaldi, who Priscilla said “struggles deeply with loss and death.”

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In a final message to her grandson, Priscilla wrote, “Leisure In Peace Ben, you have been cherished.”

After news of Ben’s tragic death emerged, Lisa Marie’s rep shared a heartbreaking utter with E! News. “She is entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but attempting to forestall sturdy for her 11-yr-ragged twins and her oldest daughter Riley [Keough]. She adored that boy. He was the take care of of her existence.”

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Riley furthermore paid tribute to her brother over the weekend, writing alongside a collection of pictures, “Mornings are the toughest. I neglect you are long past. I will now not bawl on myth of of the phobia that I could never dwell. A pains that’s contemporary to me.”

“You. There don’t seem to be any phrases for you. Angel is the closest I would possibly presumably deem of. Pure gentle. Little one brother. Most productive friend. Wild man. Psychological. Scrutinize to my existence. Twin soul. Protector. Too sensitive for this harsh world,” Riley’s put up persisted. “I hope you give me energy to endure the wide hole that you would possibly have left in my heart. I hope you give me the energy to luxuriate in. I hope you are cradled in take care of. I hope you are feeling my take care of. I hope you are feeling god. You are god.”

The 31-yr-ragged concluded her message, “I will now not judge that you would possibly have left me. Now not you candy Ben Ben. Anyone but you. I assume that is correct heartbreak. I hope we meet again.”

Ought to you or any individual you know needs abet, please call the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

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