Lisa Marie on Michael: It Was Love!

Do not tell musical daughter Lisa Marie Presley that her marriage to onetime pop prince Michael Jackson was not the real thing.

I absolutely fell in love with him, Presley says in a new interview with Rolling Stone (parts of which were published in the New York Post). I was really in this lioness thing with him, I wanted to protect him. Naive as hell. I never thought for a moment someone like him could actually use me.

Elviss daughter, who has apparently broken her usual privacy to promote her recording debut, To Whom It May Concern, dishes up on the couples two-year marriage. The pair had sex at first, she said, but later it became, Def Con 2. It just got really ugly at the end.

The onetime Mrs. Jackson, left her previous husband, Danny Keough (with whom she has two children, Danielle, 13, and Ben, 10) after Jackson, came courting, a departure she now says, was probably one of the bigger mistakes of my whole life.

But while Presley wanted to save him, she says, she quickly found herself on TV, defending him to Diane Sawyer. All of a sudden, I became part of a P.R. machine, she says.

Jackson is not the only one of Presleys exes that makes her feel a bit wacko herself. If you lined up all the men I have been with in a row, you would think that I was completely psychotic, she tells the mag.

Of, hothead, ex-hubby Nicolas Cage, Presley paraphrases original glamor girl Mae West: We were both so dramatic and dynamic that when it was good, it was unbelievably good, and when it was bad, it was just a (bleeping) bloody nightmare for everybody. It was just Mr. Toads Wild Ride.

Lisa Marie Presley Breaks Her Jackson Silence

When talking about musical royalty, two men stand heads and shoulders above the rest, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. I mean, there is a reason why they shared a nickname. Being dually dubbed “The King” was just one example why Lisa Marie Presley’s 1994 marriage to Michael was so shocking.

Another reason was because so many felt it was a sham. A sentiment their very public smooch at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards did little to erase. For a long time Lisa Marie remained mum on the subject of Michael, their relationship and the end of that coupling. But now that Michael Jackson appears to have joined the tragically long list of celebrities who died because of drug abuse (and enablers) — Elvis, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Marilyn Monroe — she has decided to break her silence.

In a blog posting on her MySpace page titled, “He Knew,” Lisa Marie not only talks about their love, but reveals that Michael truly believed he’d end up dying like Elvis. And she was helpless to change his mind.

“Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general. I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death,” she writes.

“At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.’ I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.”

“14 years later, I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.”

“A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened. The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his autopsy.

All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted. I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.

Our relationship was not ‘a sham’ as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a ‘normal life’ found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

I wanted to ‘save him’ I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened. His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn’t know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then. At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.

He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad. Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson’s being or actions.

I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him.

I was in over my head while trying. I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.

The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.

After the divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret. Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.

At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.

As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted.

Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him. He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.

I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now.

He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be.

I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is. The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right.

~LMP