Priscilla Presley remembers late daughter Lisa Marie Presley in her newly released memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.

Priscilla, 80, was married to the late Elvis Prelsey from 1967 to 1973. In the wake of their public divorce, they remained close until his death at age 42 in 1977. Throughout their highly publicized marriage, the former couple welcomed daughter Lisa Marie in February 1968.

“Raising my daughter was a challenge for both of us. She was strong-willed from the beginning,” Priscilla wrote in the book, published on Tuesday, September 23. “Like her dad, she just came that way. Lisa had a mind of her own, and being Elvis’s daughter only reinforced it.”

Lisa Marie died at age 54 in January 2023 as the result of a cardiac arrest caused by a small bowel obstruction.

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