By Sara Hammel, PEOPLE.com
October 22, 2010 12:21 p.m. EDT
Over a year after the death of her ex-husband Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley
says she regrets not reaching out to him in his time of need.
“I wish I’d saved him,” the singer told Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. "I know it's naïve to think that I could’ve... I think that was a train heading in a certain direction that no one could have stopped.”
She also opened up about getting the news that the then-50-year-old entertainer had died from an overdose of the powerful sedative Propofol in June 2009. “John Travolta was one of the first texts I got, asking, ‘Are you all right?’" she recalled. But she was far from all right, saying, “I was floored. Honestly floored. Real honest to goodness shock, not even tears.”
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Lisa Marie, who was married to the King of Pop from 1994 to 1996, hadn't spoken with him in years prior to his death, noting their last “coherently good” conversation in 2005. To this day, she regrets that call, saying she believes he reached out to her for help. “He asked if I still loved him... I told him I was indifferent and he didn’t like that word. He cried,” she said. “The final part of the conversation was him telling me that someone was going to try and kill him to get a hold of his catalog and estate. And I really didn’t know what to do with that.”
As for talk that their brief marriage was a sham, she denied it, saying, “He and I were united together" and “it was the highest point of my life.” She admitted they “had the rough patches,” but “were really in love.”
Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley, now lives in London with her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, and their 2-year-old twin daughters, Harper and Finley. She also has two grown children, model Riley Keough, 21 and Benjamin, 18, from her first marriage to Danny Keough.
