Riley Keough backs Lisa Marie Presley’s dry ice decision for son’s body

Riley Keough has come forward in support of her mother Lisa Marie Presley after the latter received backlash over her decision to keep her late son, Benjamin Keough on dry ice after his death.

“If my mom were here, she’d be like, ‘Yeah, whatever. I don’t care. If people think that’s crazy, they can go f— themselves,” Riley, 35, shared with People on Wednesday, October 9, talking about her mom’s choice to keep Benjamin’s body ahead of his burial in Tennessee in 2020.

Riley further said, “The truth is that it was COVID and the plans to bury him were really unclear,” adding that the family “needed to get to Graceland, and it was really hard because it was COVID, and we didn’t know who was going to come, so there was a lot of planning that needed to happen.”

The daughter remembered how Lisa wanted Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27, to be “in her control,” and kept him close to herself.

“She didn’t want his body to be somewhere where people could mess with it,” Riley added. “We come from a family that’s pretty high profile, so I think she ultimately just felt like she wanted to be in control of the situation.”