Riley Keough Reveals Arrest in Her Teens, Lisa Marie Presley’s Reaction

Riley Keough, just like her late mom, Lisa Marie Presley, had a rebellious phase as a teenager.

“I would sneak out and, you know, hang out with people I shouldn’t [and] wasn’t allowed to, and getting arrested,” Keough, 35, said during the Wednesday, January 15, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

Keough admitted that she’s “never” publicly shared details of her arrest for breaking and entering as a teenager — and no, she’s never seen her mugshot.

“I was a minor,” she said. “I had an edgy moment.”

Keough thought she “went to a party at my friend’s house” but things suddenly went awry.

“I didn’t know that it wasn’t my friend’s house. It was a house for sale,” she explained. “The police came, and most people got away. Then about 10 of us got arrested. My mom was pissed.”

Presley was in Las Vegas at the time of her daughter’s arrest.

“I had to call her and tell her to come back from Vegas and take me up in prison,” Riley continued, noting that her aunt picked her up following the incident. “I’ve never told anyone this.”

While Presley wasn’t happy about the actual arrest, the daughter of Elvis Presley wasn’t too pressed about details going public.

“She was like, ‘This is on you, girl,’” Riley recalled, laughing. “Luckily it didn’t get — it wasn’t in the papers.”

The Daisy Jones & The Six star was, however, in trouble at home.

“I was grounded for like three months,” Riley said. “I was grounded on my like 16th or 15th birthday or something.”

Presley shared Riley and late son Benjamin Keough (who died from suicide at age 27 in 2020) with ex-husband Danny Keough. Presley started writing her memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, prior to her January 2023 death and Riley released the book posthumously in October 2024.

Riley reflected on her mom being “an amazing parent” during Wednesday’s podcast episode but shared what she plans to do differently when raising daughter Tupelo. (Riley and husband Ben Smith-Petersen welcomed their child via surrogate in August 2022.)

“I think that the problem there could be, for some, that when you’re used to so much, it’s hard to find joy in simple things,” she said. “I really want my children to be able to find joy and just playing in the backyard and doing normal kid stuff and not need like elephants and circus and like all these things all the time. That’s probably what I would do differently. But I think her intention was really wanting to give everything she could to her kids.”