Riley Keough Says She Took on Mom Lisa Marie Presley's 'Southern Style of Parenting' with Her 2-Year-Old Daughter Tupelo

Mar. 15, 2025

Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough.Photo:Todd Williamson/NBC/NBC via Getty; Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Todd Williamson/NBC/NBC via Getty; Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Riley Keoughis sharing howLisa Marie Presleyinfluenced her role as a parent.

During the Los Angeles stop on her tour for the release of her late mom’s memoir,From Here to the Great Unknown, the actress, 35, sat down with author Taylor Jenkins Reid and shared how she mirrors some of Presley’s parenting as a mom to daughter Tupelo, 2.

“I think that I always say it’s this southern style of parenting, but it’s actually very specifically my family,” Keough began. “I think it is from the south, but whatever way she was parented was how I was parented in a sense. And I also now sort of parent that way.”

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Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presely.WWD/Penske Media via Getty

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She continued, “It’s really loving and tactile and smothering — no boundaries.”

As for why she described her family’s unique parenting style in so much detail in the book, Keough said, “I thought putting in the way that my family in the south spoke to each other in this totally insane way, kind of could help paint the picture of absolutely the wildness.”

In an exclusive excerpt of the late star’sposthumous memoir,which was featured in a September PEOPLE cover story, Keoughrevealed the adorable nickname Presley hadfor her 2-year-old granddaughter.

She “would call Tupelo our little light,” the proud mom wrote.

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Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

The news of Tupelo’s birth was first revealed during Lisa Marie’s memorial service at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., in January 2023, shortly after shedied at age 54from a small-bowel obstruction that developed following her bariatric surgery several years prior.

Keough had her husband, stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, read the tribute she had written to her mom on stage, in which she said, “I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters.” A rep for Riley later confirmed that theDaisy Jones & the Sixactress and her husband had indeed welcomed their daughter in 2022.

source: people.com