Lisa Marie Presley Opens Up About Michael Jackson’s Death To Oprah
First Published: October 20, 2010 6:36 PM EDT Credit: AFP/Getty Images
Caption Michael Jackson and ex-wife Lisa Marie in Budapest on August 6, 1994LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Lisa Marie Presley has given her first – and only — interview about the 2009 death of her former husband, Michael Jackson.
On Thursday’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the world will know about the devastation Lisa Marie felt when the King of Pop succumbed to acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009.
“Do you think you could have saved him?” Oprah asked in a clip made available by the show on Wednesday.
“I think that was a train heading in a certain direction that no one could have stopped,” Lisa Marie said. “I’ve had to really get my head around that in order to stop the pain.
Oprah asked Lisa Marie a host of questions about losing Michael – including the parallel’s between Michael’s death and her father, Elvis Presley’s death. The TV queen also asked Lisa if she thinks family and friends let Michael down.
“If he didn’t want you around, if you were going to make him confront something he didn’t want to confront, he could make you go away — including his own family,” Lisa Marie said.
Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson were married for two years, from 1994 to 1996.
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