Lisa Marie Presley had spoken about her heartbreak at the death of her son Benjamin just a few months before she tragically died at the age of 54.
The singer, who was the only daughter of Priscilla and Elvis Presley, died on January 12, after a suspected cardiac arrest. She had been taken to hospital after her former partner Danny Keogh found her unresponsive at their home in Calabasas, California, and performed CPR before medics arrived.
Lisa Marie was later pronounced dead, with mother Priscilla confirming the news in a statement via BBC News, telling fans: "It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.
"She was the most passionate, strong, and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss."
Lisa Marie was a mother to four children - daughters Riley Keough, 33, Finley Aaron Love Lockwood, and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, both 13, and a son, Benjamin Keough, who tragically died by suicide in 2020, aged 27.
She opened up about the profound impact his death had had on her in August 2022, admitting that losing her son had "detonated and destroyed" life as they knew it before.
In honor of National Grief Awareness Day in August, Lisa Marie wrote in an essay for People that she had been "living in the horrific reality of [grief's] unrelenting grips since my son's death two years ago".
Lisa Marie added: "Grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss. Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not 'get over it,' you do not 'move on,' period."
She also described the "loneliness" after the initial death, once friends and family go back to their normal lives after rallying around in the immediate aftermath of the bereavement.
"Particularly if the loss was premature, unnatural, or tragic, you will become a pariah in a sense," she revealed. "You can feel stigmatized and perhaps judged in some way as to why the tragic loss took place. This becomes magnetized by a million if you are the parent of a child who passed. No matter how old they were. No matter the circumstances."
She admitted she "blames" herself for her son's death and felt like others did too - particularly when grieving in the public eye - but found that attending and hosting support groups for other parents whose children died by suicide helped her through those feelings.
"I've dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of nine years old," she added, referencing the death of her father Elvis Presley. "I've had more than anyone's fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I've made it this far.
"But this one, the death of my beautiful, beautiful son? The sweetest and most incredible being that I have ever had the privilege of knowing, who made me feel so honored every single day to be his mother? Who was so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me? Which made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have? No. Just no ... no no no no ..."
The singer added that she had to make the "choice" every day to keep going for her daughters, especially as they were so adored by Benjamin before his death.
She added: "My and my three daughters' lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day."
Her poignant essay was written in the hopes of raising awareness for grief and loss and making sure other parents going through the same indescribable bereavement knew they were not alone.
She also encouraged people to reach out to friends and family who had lost a loved one to check on them and let them know they had support around them in their ongoing grieving process.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please reach out for help and contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources.