You can’t be happy 24/7: Riley Keough on surrendering to grief and anger
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
How good are you at letting yourself feel your feelings? Actor Riley Keough thinks it’s important to embrace the sad and angry moments as much as the joyful, hopeful ones.
In this chat with Fearne, Riley explains how her own grief at losing her brother and mum has taught her that fighting or repressing emotions only makes you more anxious in the long term.
Riley’s mum was Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley. Riley talks about Lisa’s ability to live in a place of truth – she’d never do anything that didn’t feel authentic to her. What can we all learn about how to lean into our own pleasure? It’s liberating to not care if others like you!
Fearne and Riley also discuss how impactful it can be when divorced parents are able to co-parent with grace. Plus, Riley reveals why she thinks her mum and Michael Jackson had such a deep connection.
Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, which Riley finished, is called From Here To The Great Unknown, and it’s out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. |
| 0:04.9 | The show that knows deep sadness can sit alongside great joy. |
| 0:09.8 | Today, I'm chatting to Riley Keough. |
| 0:13.0 | Mental illness, the broad term, bugs me when people are talking about depression or anxiety or these feelings that are valid. |
| 0:20.2 | I think that the way we're so hard on |
| 0:22.5 | ourselves for having a moment of depression, having a few weeks of being anxious, having a panic |
| 0:28.1 | attack, like, how could we not when we live in this wild place and we're having this crazy |
| 0:33.4 | experience? So I try and give myself grace for my feelings because by no means am I this like |
| 0:39.1 | perfectly level-headed individual. Like I'm a human and I feel a lot. How are you my lovely people? |
| 0:45.3 | I hope you're all well and happy. I am in a very cliched way in the Christmas scramble. |
| 0:51.9 | I am currently sat in what looks like... |
| 0:54.7 | I was about to say Santa's workshop. |
| 0:56.2 | It doesn't. |
| 0:56.8 | It looks like someone has been shopping and just tipped everything out of bags onto the floor. |
| 1:01.9 | And I don't like it. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't like it. |
| 1:05.2 | I want someone to come and help me sort it all out. |
| 1:07.6 | Normally, I'm very list heavy, as you probably all well know. |
| 1:10.7 | This year, I've been really |
| 1:12.3 | all over the gaff. And I haven't got post-it notes out. I haven't correlated the gift to the list. |
| 1:18.7 | It's chaos and it's stressing me out. And I'm coping by having a little glass of wine every |
| 1:24.3 | night, which is probably not the best way to cope. But hey, we're honest here on this podcast and we don't beat around the bush. Look, I've got to sort my shit out. |
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