Yahoo Lifestyle Riley Keough Opens Up About Allegations Against Ex-Stepfather Michael Jackson
Riley Keough revisited some of her childhood memories of her former stepfather, the late Michael Jackson, while appearing on a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast.
The granddaughter of the late Elvis Presley shared memories of her mother, the late Lisa Marie Presley, as she chatted with podcast host Alex Cooper.
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About halfway through the podcast episode that was released on Wednesday, Jan. 15, Cooper asked if any of the adults in Keough’s life had raised concerns about her spending time with Jackson when the King of Pop married her mother in 1994, when Keough was 5. Allegations that Jackson had sexually abused a child surfaced just one year before the two were married.
“I was never told anything,” Keough, now 35, said. “And it’s actually not something I ever asked as an adult.”
Looking back 30 years later, Keough said her life back then “just was what it was.”
“I would imagine that my dad was really heartbroken and reading the news,” the Daisy Jones & the Six actress added. “I would imagine he said all kinds of things to my mom that we didn’t know about.”
Keough recalled that her parents’ approach to raising her and her brother Benjamin, who died in 2020, “was very much, like, we don’t fight around the kids, we don’t ever say anything around them.”
Keough and her brother “didn’t know anything,” she reiterated. “We didn’t know about any allegations. We didn’t know. We had no awareness of that.”
Lisa Marie, who died two years ago at age 54, married Jackson after separating from Keough’s father, Danny Keough. The brief union ended in 1996.
Looking back on her mother’s time with the “Thriller” singer, Keough explained, “The one thing I know is that they were in love, and that their love for one another was genuine.” As for the several allegations of sexual abuse that Jackson faced in the years that followed, Keough simply said, “I don’t know, because I wasn’t there.”
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