Lisa Marie Presley’s romance with the “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, was short-lived but full of love. The couple was only married for 20 months before Presley filed for divorce, per The Los Angeles Times. However, she defended Jackson until his untimely death from a drug overdose in 2009. In fact, Presley wished she could have helped him more and felt that she failed him.
“I wanted to ‘save him’,” Presley wrote on her MySpace blog in 2009 (via Us Weekly), as news of her ex-husband’s death spread. She remembered a conversation they had during their marriage, some 14 years earlier, where Jackson admitted he was afraid he was going to die the same way her father, Elvis Presley, did. “Somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out,” she wrote. She tried to help him, but ultimately couldn’t. “In trying to save him, I almost lost myself … I became very ill and emotionally [and] spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior,” she vulnerably revealed. She also wrote that it was “my biggest failure to date.”
Presley said more about her extremely difficult decision to walk away from the relationship in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. “I saw that the drugs and doctors were coming in and they scared me and put me right back into what I went through with my father, so that ended it,” she said.
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