Riley Keough Recalls Mom Lisa Marie Presley's Reaction to Her Arrest as a Teenager: 'This Is on You, Girl'

Mar. 15, 2025

Riley Keough in January 2025; Lisa Marie Presley in May 2012.Photo:Call Her Daddy/Instagram; Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Call Her Daddy/Instagram; Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Riley Keoughis remembering some tough love she got from her famous mom as a teenager.

Appearing on the Wednesday, Jan. 15 episode ofCall Her Daddy, theDaisy Jones and the Sixactress spoke about howher mother, the lateLisa Marie Presley, reacted to her arrest as a teenager.

“[Lisa Marie] had her rebellious moment. I also had that, like where I would sneak out and you know, hang out with people I shouldn’t, wasn’t allowed to, and getting arrested,” Keough, 35, recalled. “I did [get arrested], I’ve never said that. I was arrested once.”

Keough said she was arrested as a minor for breaking and entering. “I went to a party at my friend’s house, but I didn’t know that it wasn’t my friend’s house. It was a house for sale,” she explained.

Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley in 2017.WWD/Penske Media/Getty

WWD/Penske Media/Getty

“The police came and most people got away. And then about 10 of us got arrested. My mom was pissed. She was like, ‘This is on you, girl.’ "

Keough said she was lucky that news of her arrest didn’t make the newspapers, but she did get grounded for three months for her 15th or 16th birthday whilePresleywas in Las Vegas. “I had to call her and tell her to come back from Vegas and pick me up in prison.”

“I’ve never told anyone this! She’s like, I can’t get there,” she continued, comparing her own edginess to her mom’s. “So she sent my aunt to come get me. So I had a moment as a teenager and she also did.”

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Keough’s mother,Presley, died in January 2023afterbeing rushed to the hospital for possible cardiac arrest. She was 54 years old. Amemorial was held for her at Gracelandin Memphis, where she was laid to rest next to her sonBenjamin Keoughwho died in 2020.

Riley Keough in April 2024.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

TheZolastarcompleted her mother’s posthumous memoirFrom Here to the Great Unknown. Presley asked Keough to help her with the project before she died, and Keough pored over tapes Presley recordedfor the book, which waspublished in October 2024.

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Keoughspoke to PEOPLE about her mother’s deathahead of the book’s release.

“My mom tried her best to find strength for me and my younger sisters after Ben died, but we knew how much pain she was in,” she said. “My mom physically died from the after-effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart.”

source: people.com