Lisa Marie Admits Her ‘Shame’ After ‘Dangerous’ Opiate Addiction
Michael Lockwood's drug-riddled wife confessed to popping pills for three years.
June 5 2019, Updated 7:26 p.m. ET
Lisa Marie Presley admitted she was filled with shame over her years-long addiction to opioids and painkillers, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Elvis’ troubled daughter made the shocking confession in a foreword she wrote for Harry Nelson’s book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription For Liberating A Nation In Pain. Lisa Marie recalled how one “short-term prescription” of opioids prescribed to her after she gave birth to her daughters was all it took for her to spiral out of control.
“We allow shame to prevent us from reaching out for help. This is a unique challenge for people living with fame. I have seen it up close with too many people I have loved. I have experienced it myself,” Presley, 51, wrote.
The disgraced singer, who is in the middle of a nasty divorce battle with husband Michael Lockwood, admitted to abusing cocaine and going to rehab in a shocking 2018 court deposition exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com.
“I had to go to rehab several times,” Lisa Marie confessed on the stand. “I was a mess. I couldn’t stop.”
In the same deposition, Lisa Marie admitted she was addicted to “painkillers and opioids,” in addition to using cocaine “terribly.”
In Nelson’s book, released in March, the singer revealed the dangers of an opiate addiction.
“What makes opioids so dangerous is their addictiveness,” she wrote.
Court documents exclusively uncovered by RadarOnline.com in January revealed how Lisa Marie’s addiction affected her marriage to Michael. The bitter husband claimed to the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services during an investigation that the star was “paranoid and hallucinatory” from her substance abuse. He also claimed she popped up to 80 opiate pills daily.
Lisa Marie’s partner also alleged the drug-riddled star wouldn’t sleep for days at a time – once having stayed awake for a total of 11 straight days.
In her own words, Lisa Marie admitted it’s “hard to understand what exactly is going wrong” in today’s society surrounding opiate abuse, she wrote in the book.
But she credited her four children for giving her “the purpose to heal.”
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