Lisa Marie Presley did cocaine in Scientology Celebrity Centre

Lisa Marie Presley spoke out about her time in the Church of Scientology in her new memoir, which is being released posthumously by her daughter Riley Keough.

Presley, who died last year aged 54, abused drugs from the age of 13-17, until her mother checked her into a Scientology rehab center.

Reflecting on her experience, Presley wrote, 'Scientology actually helped.'

She continued, 'The church felt radical in an exciting way − it didn’t feel like an organized religion, really. It attracted cool, unusual, artistic people. It became my tribe.'

Despite enjoying her time in the church, the singer admits that she bent some of the rules when she first checked into the Scientology Celebrity Center as a teen.

'The first morning I removed the large mirror from the wall, called my coke dealer and invited him and about six or seven other people over,' she wrote.

'We proceeded to have a four-day bender in that room.'

Presley left Scientology in 2014 and her daughter Riley is also rumored to have left too.

Presley's life was filled with tragedy. Her son Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 aged just 27, after a long battle with addiction. 

Her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson also collapsed amid his drug abuse, and she herself became addicted to opioids in 2008, when she was given a short-term prescription during her recovery from the birth of her twin daughters, Harper Vivienne and Finley.

By 2013, she was heavily abusing cocaine, and checked into rehab at least five times.

She was believed to have been sober in recent years, but following her son's death her ex-husband Michael Lockwood said he feared she could relapse. 

The daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was just nine when her father died aged 42 of a heart attack, thought to have possibly been brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.

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As a teenager, she rebelled with drugs from the age of 13 to 17, but her mother put her into The Castle, a Scientology center in Hollywood, to get her off drugs.

'I did everything but mushrooms and heroin or crack,' she said.

'Cocaine, sedatives, pot, and drinking — all at the same time... I don't know how I lived through it.

'I woke up one day with a bunch of people on the floor. I drove myself to the Church of Scientology and said: 'Somebody... help me right now.'

For a time it worked, and Lisa Marie said she was drug-free from the age of 17.

At the age of 27, she married Michael Jackson - her second marriage, after a six-year union with actor Danny Keough, father of Benjamin and his actress sister Riley, now 35. 

Her third marriage, to Nicholas Cage, lasted only three months - Cage had also battled drug addiction throughout his 20s, and famously revealed he took magic mushrooms with his cat.

In 2006 she married musician Michael Lockwood, and the birth of their twin daughters begun her own descent into drug addiction by abusing opioids.

The scale of her problem was laid bare amid her bruising 2016 divorce from Lockwood, after a decade of marriage.

In a 2017 deposition, which was obtained by the Radar Online, she admitted to abusing cocaine, opioids, painkillers and alcohol. 

Presley suffered a cardiac arrest in her Calabasas home on January 12, 2023 and died later that day at just 54, with an autopsy revealing she died from a 'small bowel obstruction' from a recent bariatric surgery.