Lisa Marie Presley "didn't want to be here any more" after her son died.

The late singer was left devastated when Benjamin Keough took his own life in 2020 at the age of just 27, and her mother, Priscilla Presley, has recalled urging her daughter - who also had daughter Riley, 36, with Danny Keough, and twins Finley and Harper, 16, with Michael Lockwood - to keep going for the sake of her family.

Priscilla told People magazine: "[Ben] was absolutely the love of her life. She didn't want to be here anymore [after his suicide]. She wanted to be with Ben ... I'd tell her, 'Lisa, you've got the twins. You have to take care of the twins.' She tried. She really did."

Three years after Benjamin's passing, Lisa Marie died at the age of 54 from a small bowel obstruction, a long-term complication from bariatric surgery, and Priscilla admitted it took her a "long time" to come to terms with the tragedy of losing her daughter, who she had from her marriage to the late Elvis Presley.

Priscilla said: "It was the second saddest day of my life, other than losing Elvis.

"It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that Lisa was gone."

In her upcoming new memoir, Softly, as I leave You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla has written about agreeing to take Lisa Marie off life support and though it was a "hard" decision to make, the Naked Gun actress knew her daughter "wanted to go".

She said: "Lisa really wasn't breathing, so she was on the ventilator.

"For or hours we were there waiting, hoping and praying until the doctor came in and said, 'Priscilla, I'm so sorry, she's gone.' We just couldn't believe it -- didn't want to believe it. It was hard on all of us, it still is.

"But like I said, she wanted to go. She did not want to be here. She wanted to be with Ben."

And the 80-year-old star takes comfort in remembering the good times she had with her daughter.

She said: "I know there's a lot out there that I did this to Lisa, I did that to Lisa. "There's a lot of people out there who didn't want Lisa and I to be close. We were very close. Lisa could be hard-headed but so could I sometimes. We had a lot of good times together.

"She was fun to be with. She liked to have a few drinks and hang out with friends. She'd call me and say, 'Mom, you want to come over and have a drink?' I could be with someone already having dinner, and she'd say, 'Well, bring them all over.' She liked having fun for sure."