Drew Barrymore Tells Riley Keough About The “Bizarre, Cosmic Connection” She’s “Always Felt” To Her And Her Mother

Drew Barrymore got the chance to tell Riley Keough about the “connection” she’s felt to her and Lisa Marie Presley on Friday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.

Keough, who is a co-author on her late mother’s memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, sat down with Barrymore to discuss the new book.

“The woman about to walk out of those doors is someone I deeply, deeply admire, and have felt a very strange connection to her and her mother in my life,” she gushed while introducing the Under The Bridge star.

Once Keough joined Barrymore, the talk show host explained that the beginning of the book follows “Lisa Marie and [Keough’s] grandfather, Elvis [Presley].”

“Now, I think some reason I’ve always felt this bizarre, cosmic connection to you, which I dared to mention to you,” she admitted, “and I was very nervous about [it].”

Keough replied with a chuckle, “I think it’s because we look related. I think you could be a Presley or we could be Barrymores, but there’s something going on.”

Once Barrymore agreed that “there’s something going on,” Keough noted that her little sister “looks like” Barrymore, which she called “crazy.”

“Well, when she was young, I always told her that, ‘You look like Drew Barrymore,'” she recalled.

Barrymore asked, “When did this hit you? Because people used to tell me that I looked like your mom, and then also you. And I thought, ‘Oh no, they’re too amazing-looking. Why are you saying that?'”

Keough chimed in, “It’s weird, because I don’t see it when I’m looking at your face. But as a teenager, a lot of times people would say, ‘You know, you look like Drew Barrymore.’ I still don’t really see it. I think my mom sort of looked like you. There’s something going on.”

Barrymore was then reminded of her ex-boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti — whom she described as “the most incredible artist” — and who “used to call [her] Elvis.”

“Because when he would draw my lips, he would say, ‘Oh, it’s the Cupid’s bow,'” she posed.

Keough agreed that “maybe it’s the lips,” as Barrymore noted that Keough’s “family is famous for the Cupid’s bow.”

“But I didn’t know your mom, and I didn’t know, behaviorally, that there was so much alignment,” she added.

Barrymore highlighted reading about how Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley were “a 9-year-old and a very young mother” when Elvis had died.

“This is where I slipped into, ‘Oh my God. This is such a universal story,'” she continued, “which is your mom is out there being wild, can’t be tamed, and mad at her mom. And her mom doesn’t know what to do. That was my life experience.”

Keough acknowledged that “a lot of the themes in the book are very human things,” citing “mothers and daughters, and grief, and addiction.”

The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.