Actress Riley Keough only has fond memories of her former stepfather Michael Jackson, insisting she truly “loved” him.
Riley’s mother, Lisa Marie Presley, was only married to the King of Pop for two years, but they continued to enjoy an on/off relationship following their 1996 divorce.
The 27-year-old admits she was close to Jackson while he and her mum were together, telling T Magazine, “I loved him.”
She also always enjoyed staying at the Thriller hitmaker’s famous Neverland Ranch in California, where there was a zoo, carnival rides, and a waterfall all on the spacious property.
“There were toys everywhere, animals everywhere, kids everywhere,” Riley recalled. “It was like being at Disneyland all day.”
Lisa Marie, the daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley, went on to enjoy another whirlwind romance with actor Nicolas Cage, but their 2002 marriage only lasted 108 days, with their divorce finalised in 2004.
Discussing her mother’s tumultuous love life, which includes her first marriage to Riley’s dad, singer Danny Keough, and her 2016 split from fourth husband Michael Lockwood, the actress quipped, “My mum’s a tough b**ch.”
Riley is fully aware her childhood was far from conventional, and she believes being surrounded by so many musicians is what inspired her to take a slightly difference career path.
“Looking back on it, I’m like, ‘Wow, my upbringing was very intense,'” she shared. “I always wanted to be in film. I knew that. I grew up in a family of musicians, so it was also something I wasn’t around a lot. I wanted to make movies and that’s all I wanted to do when I was a kid was film everything and I was very fascinated with people and human behaviour.”
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I wish she would have defended him during the trial I know she was still kind of young and had to deal with her mother’s men switching all the time but she should have said this during the Trial and before and after.
I do too, but she was about 15 at the time and I doubt seriously that that mother of hers would have allowed it.