Priscilla, meanwhile, revealed via Facebook that same month that the children were in her care “until all this is sorted out.” (Lockwood was later cleared of all potential charges.) The Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed later that month that Lockwood was under investigation for alleged child abuse. While Lisa Marie often called her father, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, “very adoring” and “sweet,” she explained that her mother was “level-headed” and would often have “to undo whatever was done if I went to Graceland and spent two weeks being a tyrant.” After the twosome called it quits in 1973, they took turns sharing custody of their only child. Priscilla and Lisa Marie’s father, Elvis Presley, tied the knot in May 1967 and welcomed their daughter less than a year later. We are now very close, but when I was younger, it was, like, difficult to have a relationship with somebody that’s got you … around the neck all the time.” I realized that is not going to work very well because it made us not get close for a very long time. “My mom was really, really strict with me,” Lisa Marie said during a 2013 appearance on The Talk. Lisa Marie Presley had a close relationship with her mother, Priscilla Presley, before her death in January 2023 - but the twosome faced their fair share of ups and downs.
