Riley Keough Called Lisa Marie Presley From Jail After Party Ended in Arrest: She ‘Was Pissed’
Los Angeles was a playground for Riley Keough as a teenager, which meant that her mother Lisa Marie Presley had her work cut out for her. During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, Keough dug into her vault of secret stories and recalled one particularly chaotic night where she ended up ringing her mom from jail after being arrested for breaking and entering.
“I was grounded and she was in Las Vegas,” Keough recalled. “I had to call her and tell her to come back from Vegas and pick me up from prison. I’ve never told anyone this.” The actress went through a rebellious phase where she would sneak out of the house and hang out with people who probably weren’t the best influences. That particular night, she attended a friend’s house party — only it wasn’t their house.
“It was a house for sale,” she said. “The police came and most people got away and then about 10 of us got arrested. My mom was pissed.” Presley couldn’t make it back from Vegas to rescue Keough. “So she’s like, ‘I can’t get there.’ So she sent my aunt to come get me,” she continued. Presley knew this was the kind of thing that the tabloids might pick up, but told her daughter: “This is on you, girl.”
“I had a moment as a teenager and she also did,” Keough said. Later in the episode, she recalled instances in which she felt particularly angry with her mother, who died in January 2023. “When she would break up with people, Michael [Jackson], her other partners, I would cry,” she said. “I’d get mad at her. I’d be pissed, not knowing what happened, but I was always just mad at my mom for the breakups. It really affected me.”
This impacted Keough’s own approach to relationships early in life, almost as an extension of her rebellion. “When I was younger, I was very hard to pin down,” she said. “I was not interested in sticking around and I definitely didn’t have the best track record there. That, I think, would tie to my mom’s way of moving on once the thrill is whatever.”
But she maintained a tight-knit connection with her mother, father, and brother. “There were just not a lot of boundaries, it was like everyone knew everything about everybody,” Keough said. When she was younger, there was some shielding in place. For example, she said, she was “never told anything” about any allegations of abuse surrounding Jackson when he was with Presley. But the veil lifted in a different way as she got older. “If I was breaking up with a boyfriend, she was involved,” Keough added. “It was that kind of thing … We were very enmeshed.”