Jerry Schilling "never thought" he would have to deal with the death of Lisa Marie Presley.

The 81-year-old talent manager represented singer Lisa Marie - who died of a bowel obstruction in January 2023 at the age of 54 - for much of her career and admitted on the first anniversary of her passing on Friday (12.01.24) that he always assumed that he would have been the first to go and he often thinks for a moment that she is still here.

He told People: "Being a pallbearer [at her funeral], I know she’s gone, and being there with her in the hospital for the last moment. But on a day-to-day basis, there a lot of times I’ll think, ‘I wonder what Lisa’s going to think of this.’ Then I go, ‘Oh my God.’ There’s just a huge vacuum. I never thought I’d be missing her. Logically it should be the other way around."

Jerry was a lifelong friend of Lisa's father Elvis Presley - who died in 1977 at the age of 42 - and was present for her birth, as well in the hospital when she died, and had escorted her down the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards just two days before she passed away.

The 'Lights Out' singer had daughter Riley, 34, and son Benjamin with former husband Danny Keough as well as twin daughters Finley and Harper with second husband MICHAEL LOCKWOOD but her son took his own life in 2020 at the age of 27 and Jerry explained that Lisa had become something of a recluse following the loss.

He added: "Since the loss of her son, Ben Storm, Lisa did not go out. I didn’t know she… was going to survive [Benjamin's death]. She survived that for two years because of the love and care for her three daughters."