Lisa Marie Presley took '80 pills a day' at the height of her opioid addiction

Lisa Marie Presley wrote astir her opioid addiction successful her posthumous memoir, "From Here To The Great Unknown."

In the book, Presley – who passed distant successful January 2023 from a tiny bowel obstruction – explained that she became hooked connected painkillers aft the commencement of her twins successful 2008 and was taking an alarming magnitude of pills a time astatine the tallness of her addiction.

"It escalated to eighty pills a day. It took much and much to get high, and I honestly don’t cognize erstwhile your assemblage decides it can’t woody with it anymore. But it does determine this astatine immoderate point," Presley, the lone girl of Elvis and Priscilla, wrote.

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Lisa Marie Presley died connected Jan. 12, 2023, astatine the property of 54. (Christopher Polk)

She continued, "I judge that we’re each calved innocent, and that everyone’s quality is innately good, but they get f---ed by their surroundings. And I judge that my encephalon is different, that I americium an addict. Otherwise, I would person had each those years successful betwixt being a anserine teen to abruptly getting a cause wont astatine forty."

Presley explained that she started taking the pills for "recreational" purposes, but it rapidly became "an implicit substance of addiction."

"It escalated to eighty pills a day. It took much and much to get high, and I honestly don’t cognize erstwhile your assemblage decides it can’t woody with it anymore. But it does determine this astatine immoderate point."

"If I had afloat tally retired of drugs, the severity of the withdrawal would person near maine either successful the infirmary oregon dead. My humor unit would sprout up truthful high," she wrote.

Presley's daughter, Riley Keough, was besides an writer of the posthumous memoir. "My parent had started by taking opioids for symptom aft her C-section, and past she progressed to taking them to sleep," Keough wrote.

Lisa Marie Presley was the lone kid of Priscilla and Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough, was an writer of her posthumous memoir. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

"She had turned forty successful February 2008; my sisters were calved successful that aforesaid twelvemonth (I would crook 20 the pursuing May)," she continued. "After her little stint with drugs arsenic a teen she ne'er touched them again. She drank, but, similar she said, arsenic an big she wouldn’t adjacent instrumentality Advil oregon Tylenol."

Keough, 35, explained that her parent often warned her of the dangers of dabbling with drugs. 

"Throughout my beingness she would often accidental ‘if I tried drugs, it would beryllium implicit for me.’ I spot present that that was specified a beardown hint to an addiction contented she had an intuition about," she wrote. 

Lisa Marie Presley died successful January 2023 astatine 54. (Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it was subconscious, but it stalked her. She had been holding it backmost with Scientology, with raising children, with marriages, with spirituality. But it was there, similar a shadow, the full time. She’d say, ‘My dada was forty-two erstwhile helium died. I’m thirty-nine….'"

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Keough added, "We ne'er could person imagined it would beryllium thing that would travel for her truthful viciously, truthful precocious successful life."

After being hospitalized for her addiction, Presley was sent to a court-ordered rehabilitation installation successful Los Angeles. Keough explained that she was being "weaned-off" the opioids with drugs similar "Suboxone, Seroquel and Gabapentin."

Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley astatine a screening of "Elvis" successful 2022. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

Keough wrote that portion her parent was successful rehab, she decided to get bariatric country due to the fact that her "entire beingness she had been harassed for being fat." 

"The country was thing she’d ever wanted," she noted.

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"It was a unusual clip to determine to person surgery, successful rehab. She wasn’t done with her program. I retrieve worrying that it was a mode to enactment connected medicine a small spot longer. I didn’t consciousness she was acceptable to beryllium sober," Keough wrote.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley welcomed their lone kid unneurotic successful 1968. (Getty Images)

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In January 2023, Presley died from a small bowel obstruction, which is simply a semipermanent complication from bariatric surgery. She was 54.