Lisa - Marie Presley , Jackson were married from 1994 to 1998 . She says she feared he would die like her father , Elvis Presley . Presley says their marriage was not ` ` a disaster '' as press has said . She said her short marriage to Jackson -- from May 1994 until January 1996 -- `` was not ' a sham ' as is being reported in the press , '' but she divorced him because she was `` in over my head in trying '' to save Jackson `` from the inevitable , which is what has just happened . '' ` ` I wanted to save him from the inevitable , '' she says .
Lisa - Marie Presley , Jackson were married from 1994 to 1998 . She says she feared he would die like her father , Elvis Presley . Presley says their marriage was not ` ` a disaster '' as press has said . ` ` I wanted to save him from the inevitable , '' she says .