One of the things that we love about the podcast Call Her Daddy, is that Alexandra Cooper isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions. She’s not afraid to ask about anything that the world would want to know and maybe things that the world wouldn’t think of.
We loved that she has on celebrities from all different mediums, whether it be social media or movies or music, it doesn’t matter. The guests are always relevant.
And they are always interesting.
Her latest guest is Riley Keough. We all know that Riley is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and that Elvis is her Grandpa. But she’s also a mom, an actress, a singer, and more. She’s been through a lot and some things we will never understand.
Keough spoke about a lot on the podcast, but one thing she spoke about was that she didn’t want to be a burden to her kids. She doesn’t want them to ever feel like they need to take care of her.
“I don’t know if it’s just inevitable, but as a parent, I don’t ever want my kids to feel like they have to take care of me or unless they literally do,” Keough said. Her facial expressions are always hard to read, but when it comes to talking about her daughter, Tupelo, she has a gleam in her eye.
“But I mean like, emotionally, I don’t want my children to feel like my happiness is their responsibility,” she added.
Keough acknowledges that parents are going to make mistakes and that inevitably you’ll do things that your parents did to you.
She opened up about the kind of mother that her Mom was. She said, “I think she was such an amazing parent and she wanted us to have, I think like her father did, these amazing experiences all the time. For me personally, I think that the problem there could be for some that when you’re used to so much, it’s hard to find joy in simple things.”
And then added, “And so I really want my children to be able to find joy playing in the backyard and doing normal kids stuff and not need elephants and circus and all these things all the time.”
Riley’s conversation with Alexandra Cooper was very interesting and enlightening. If you can, you should definitely listen to her episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast. Additionally, may we also suggest picking up From Here To The Great Unknown, which is Lisa Marie Presley’s autobiography, which Keough finished for her Mom.
