Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough's marriage didn't work out, but the pair never stopped being friends. The former couple co-parented their children Riley and Benjamin Keough and eventually began working together when Presley asked her ex-husband to join her band as a bass player in 2005. She later told People that she still had a strong connection to Keough, although it was no longer a romantic relationship.
"Ultimately this is a good message to send out to people: You don't have to put your crap on your kids even if you are not together. You can still be civilized," she said of working with her ex. "I knew at the age that I had the kids with him that Danny was someone I could be connected with for the rest of my life. I knew he would be a good father," she added. Presley and Keough were so close, that when she married Michael Lockwood in 2006, her ex-husband served as best man in the wedding. Sadly, the pair also had to go through the heartbreak of losing their son, Benjamin, in 2020 when the 27-year-old died by suicide. However, the tragedy seemed to bring them even closer together.
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