Riley Keough Says She’s Felt Mom Lisa Marie Presley Since Cowriting Her Memoir: ‘Too Weird Not to Be Something’ (Exclusive)

Riley Keough still feels connected to mom Lisa Marie Presley after her death.

The Daisy Jones & The Six star, 36, shared that she believes she’s received signs from her late mother reassuring her that she’s at peace with the memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which Keough finished after her death in 2023.

“I think if you’re open to those things, they’re kind of everywhere,” Keough told PEOPLE at the Academy x Chanel’s Women’s Luncheon on Tuesday, Nov. 4. “I really do believe that.” 

“So, I certainly feel connected to whatever that world may be. I do feel connected to it, yeah. There are certainly moments that are very… too weird to not be something,” she added.

Though Keough did not elaborate on those instances where she has felt her mother’s presence, she will discuss it in a new “heartfelt afterword” released in the paperback version of the book, out on Nov. 11, per publisher Penguin Random House.

In the afterword, Riley “reflects on the journey of bringing From Here to the Great Unknown into the world and her search for a sign that her mother was at peace with its publication,” according to the publisher.

The actress, who is the sole trustee of Lisa Marie’s estate and the owner of the family’s home Graceland, also reflected on what she’s taken away from the past year since releasing her mother’s memoir, saying, “I was really just happy that it was done and out in the world.”

“And it felt like, no pun intended, but a closed chapter. I think I did something I was meant to do,” she explained.

Keough previously told PEOPLE that in order to finish her mother’s memoir, she listened to tapes of memories her mother had recorded. The tapes covered a wide range of topics from Lisa Marie’s parents Elvis and Priscilla Presley to the devastating death of her son Benjamin and even the birth of her granddaughter, Riley’s 3-year-old daughter Tupelo.

“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was,” Keough previously told PEOPLE when the book was published.

The Terminal List star said her goal with the memoir was to turn her mother into a “three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life. I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.”

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She said that she hoped others who read her mother’s stories would be able to “relate” to what she’s been through and find some comfort in that.

“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family,” she said. “[My mom] wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, to know that they’re not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that’s mine.”