Lisa Marie Presley regretted not stepping in to save Michael Jackson from the same fate as her late father, Elvis Presley.
Writing candidly in a Myspace blog post after Jackson's death in 2009, Presley revealed that MJ had voiced his concern over fame claiming his life the way it did Elvis' years before. "I wanted to 'save him' I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened," she wrote in her reaction post, via Oprah.com. "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."
It appeared Lisa Marie took her regrets to Jackson's burial, where she was photographed mourning alone next to his casket. When asked by Express in 2021 if she found "peace" in that moment captured on film, Lisa Marie clarified, "It was more like I wanted to apologise for not being around."
