Anyone who has tried to get a little work done with a toddler in the room knows how this story goes.
In October 2024, Riley Keough was busy getting ready for a very big release. Riley is Elvis Presley’s granddaughter and an actress, and she was 35 at the time. The book was “From Here to the Great Unknown,” the memoir Lisa Marie started and Riley finished.
Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child and Riley’s mom. Finishing her story was a labor of love, and Riley spent that fall on a book tour talking to fans about it.
One of those tour stops was in Nashville, where Riley took questions from the audience, and a fan channel was there to film it.
Riley Keough answers fan questions on her Nashville book tour stop
Around the same time, Riley posted a video on Instagram of herself signing black-and-white photos of herself with her mom. Those signed photos were going into special edition copies of the book.
So far, so normal. Then the camera moved from the table down to the floor.
Sitting there was Riley’s daughter, Tupelo. She was 2 years old, with a head of blonde curls. Riley and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, welcomed her in August 2022, and she’s Elvis’s great-granddaughter.
Tupelo wasn’t about to be left out. As HELLO! magazine put it, she was “joining in.”
DoYouRemember said the little girl was copying her mother while she colored on the floor. She had a brown crayon in her hand and a coloring book in front of her, and she scribbled away, very serious about her work.
Then she went one step further.
Tupelo took that brown crayon to one of the photos of Riley and Lisa Marie. It had already been signed. She added her own scrawl right on it, the way any 2-year-old would sign something important.
Riley’s answer was to turn it into a joke for her fans in the caption.
“A few of you might just get a very exclusive, special edition copy of FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN signed by Tupelo.”
Notice the word “might.” Riley never said how many of those copies were out there, and she never promised anyone one. It was a playful wink. Still, a lucky few fans could end up with a book that carries Lisa Marie’s face and her granddaughter’s crayon on the very same photo.
You can find the original clip on Riley’s Instagram, where she shared it with her followers.
Riley has talked openly about the kind of mom she wants to be. She told HELLO! that “I don’t think you ever can be a perfect parent, but I would like to be the best mom for her that I can be. That’s very important to me.”
And if you were one of the fans who got a signed copy, take a close look at the photo inside. A little brown crayon mark might be hiding there.