Key Takeaways
- Roseanne Barr claims Lisa Marie Presley told her Michael Jackson was “the best lay she ever had” and knew exactly what women wanted to hear.
- Barr said Presley candidly discussed her partners, including Nicolas Cage, and insisted she trusted Presley's account of her intimate life.
- The claim adds context to Jackson and Presley's heavily scrutinized 1994–1996 marriage, which Presley consistently maintained was genuine.
Roseanne Barr is sharing some very personal details about Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's marriage, including a bedroom revelation that might surprise anyone who questioned whether their relationship was real.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Oct. 20, the comedian claimed that Presley once told her Jackson was the best sexual partner she'd ever had.
"She said he was the best lay she ever had," Barr recalled when asked whether Presley had ever discussed her marriage to the King of Pop.
When the interviewer expressed disbelief, Barr doubled down.
"No, I'm not," she replied. "She said he was the best lay and he had it going on. She said he told her all the things girls want to hear."
And when asked whether Jackson ranked above Presley's other partners, Barr didn't hesitate: "He was number one."
The revelation came during a conversation about Barr's Hollywood social circle in the 1990s, when her enormously successful ABC sitcom put her alongside celebrities including Madonna and Sandra Bernhard. But Barr said Presley, who died in January 2023 at age 54, was the person she most enjoyed spending time with.
"The best person that I ran around with was Lisa Marie Presley," Barr said.
According to Barr, their friendship included conversations that went considerably further than the usual celebrity gossip. Presley reportedly discussed her relationships in explicit detail, including her marriage to Nicolas Cage.
"She never lied about sh*t like that," Barr said when asked whether she believed Presley's assessment of Jackson. "She told me about Nicolas Cage and his business. She told me everybody she was with and their business, the size of it and the use and all of it."
Barr's account adds another dimension to a relationship that attracted extraordinary scrutiny from the moment Jackson and Presley married in May 1994.
The daughter of Elvis Presley and the world's biggest pop star made an unlikely celebrity couple, particularly as Jackson was facing intense public attention surrounding allegations of child sexual abuse. Their marriage prompted persistent speculation about whether the relationship was genuine or intended to rehabilitate Jackson's public image.
The couple publicly addressed those doubts during a famously uncomfortable 1995 interview with Diane Sawyer, where they were questioned about their marriage and intimate life. Presley defended the relationship, insisting that their marriage was real.
In later interviews, she acknowledged that she had loved Jackson and described their relationship as complicated. Following his death in 2009, Presley publicly reflected on the emotional difficulties surrounding their marriage and the impact his death had on her.
The renewed attention comes during another major year for Jackson's legacy. The Michael biopic, starring his nephew Jaafar Jackson, crossed $1 billion worldwide in 2026, while the singer's catalog experienced a substantial Billboard resurgence.
