Lisa Marie Presley was taking 80 opioid pills a DAY

Lisa Marie Presley was taking 80 pills a day at height of her opioid addiction, it has been claimed in her new memoir From Here To The Great Unknown.

The singer, who died at age 54 in 2023, had been become dependent on opioids after the C-section birth of her twin daughters Finley and Harper.

In her book, which her eldest daughter Riley Keough helped complete, she shared that the opioid addiction got the best of her.

'It escalated to 80 pills a day,' Lisa Marie said in her book, which went on sale Tuesday.

'It took more and more to get high, and I honestly don't know when your body decides it can't deal with it anymore. But it does decide at some point.'

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Lisa Marie added that at first drug use was 'recreational,' but then 'it wasn't' anymore as she became dependent on it.

Opioids are a class of drugs that include synthetic opioids such as fentanyl; pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine; the illegal drug heroin; and many others. 

Lisa Marie also struggled with the 2020 suicide death of her son Benjamin.

'It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues,' Lisa Marie wrote in her book. 'I just wanted to check out. It was too painful to be sober.'

Keough, 35, added that her mother began opioids only after she had her twins.

But then she took them more often that she should as the addiction 'progressed.' 

The whole family was surprised by her addiction as she never liked to take any drugs of any kind, apart from a brief time in her youth, the book added.

Lisa Marie eventually ended up in the hospital then in rehab after an overdose.

Riley wrote that Lisa Marie was then getting high 'on the post-rehab cocktail.' But when she had a seizure, she finally decided to get sober for good.

'She had been very chastened by the seizure,' Riley writes.

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But the real problem came when Lisa Marie had bariatric surgery, which is a medical term for surgical procedures used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. 

Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut hormones, physical reduction of stomach size, reduction of nutrient absorption, or a combination of these.

After Lisa Marie died, it was shared it was not from opioid addiction but rather from  a 'small bowel obstruction' caused by a bariatric surgery.

The autopsy stated that the opioids in her system did not contribute to her death.

This comes after Keough said she hopes to 'honor' her late mother with the memoir/

The Hollywood actress has completed the book that her mother was working on at the time of her death and considers it as a 'gift' that she has the chance to tell Lisa Marie's story to the world.

In a behind-the-scenes video of her in a recording booth, Riley said: 'I aim not only to honor my mother, but to tell a human story in what I know is an extraordinary circumstance.

'I am aware that the recordings my mother left are a gift. 

'So often, all that's left of a loved one is a saved and re-saved voicemail, a short video on a phone, some favorite photos. I take the privilege of these tapes very seriously.'

The memoir will cover how Lisa Marie struggled after Elvis' death as well the tragic passing of her son Benjamin and Riley hopes it presents her as 'a three-dimensional human being'.

The Daisy Jones and The Six star said: 'What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I've done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and revealed the core of who she was.

'To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving - everything that she was throughout her remarkable life.

'I want to give a voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.'