Lisa Marie Presley is "grateful to be alive today."
The daughter of Elvis Presley has written a foreword for the new book "The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain" by Harry Nelson.
In it she talks about her own struggle with addiction.
Elvis Presley, who died in 1977, was well-known to have struggled with substance
abuse.
His daughter wrote that she wanted to go public in an attempt to help others.
"I had never openly spoken in public about my own addiction to opioids and painkillers," she wrote.
"I wasn't sure that I was ready to share on such a personal topic."
Presley said she became addicted when she was given a short-term prescription during her recovery from the birth of her twin daughters, Vivienne and Finley, in 2008.
She's faced a "difficult path" with her recovery but said, "It is time for us to say goodbye to shame about addiction.
06-06-2019 - Vidéo