Michael Edwards issued a statement Thursday denying claims made in Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir that he sexually abused the singer for several years beginning when she was 10.“These claims are absolutely untrue.

Priscilla Presley's ex Michael Edwards denied the ‘absolutely untrue’ allegations that he sexually assaulted young Lisa Marie Presley in the 1980s

Lisa Marie Presley is known to have had an up-and-down relationship with her mom, and the late singer spoke about it in her memoir.