Axl Rose has paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley following her demise final week.
Presley, the singer-songwriter and solely baby of Elvis, died on January 12 on the age of 54, hours after she was rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest at her residence in Calabasas, California.
“I’ll miss my good friend Lisa,” the Weapons N’ Roses singer informed Folks in a press release.
“Her passing, simply as her son’s, or as a child, her father’s, doesn’t appear actual,” he continued. “Lisa liked her household, all her kids. My coronary heart goes out to them.”
Rose additionally mirrored on Presley’s lack of her son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in July 2020, aged 27.
“Her son’s passing was surprising, tragic and devastating. It was one thing that, at some extent, you clearly didn’t wish to convey up however awkwardly would in an effort to let her know you cared and had been interested by her, about them, and to be of any consolation one may, which she appreciated,” he mentioned.
The singer additionally recalled sharing “jokes, information articles and many animal vids” following her son’s demise in an try to boost her spirits, and that he tried to “let her know of the fixed interested by her, them, and wanting the very best for her”.
“I wished her to be comfortable, to be ok with issues, no less than as a lot as one may below the circumstances. And actually, with the closeness of their relationship, one may hope — however honestly, it didn’t appear, no less than with out some actual time passing, an affordable actuality,” he added.
“What comes after life who is aware of however I’d prefer to suppose they’re collectively, her and Ben together with her father and Ben’s grandfather not directly, and Lisa, and crucial males in her life are comfortable collectively.”
Final week it was shared that Presley will buried subsequent to her son at Graceland.
Rose continued that he was “lucky sufficient to listen to about her father and her experiences and reminiscences with him first hand”.
“She got here to reveals and we frolicked backstage,” Rose mentioned. “It was all the time nice to see her and he or she was all the time enjoyable n’ tremendous supportive.”
He additionally recalled talking “rather a lot” about Baz Luhrmann’s new Elvis film starring Austin Butler, which she was “very happy with”, particularly because it “touched on her father’s love since early childhood of black gospel, and later, the blues”.
“She was very nervous at first of how the general public would react to the movie as a result of it was so necessary to her to do proper by her father.”
Information of Presley’s demise was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla, who mentioned in a press release (by way of the Related Press) that “my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was probably the most passionate robust and loving lady I’ve ever identified”.
Tributes have since flooded in from her ex-husband Nicolas Cage in addition to the the Michael Jackson property, and Elvis star Butler.
This week it was confirmed that Lisa Marie Presley‘s surviving three kids will reportedly inherit her Graceland property.