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.

Michael Edwards is trying to clear the air over the sexual abuse allegations Lisa Marie Presley made in her posthumous memoir. In the late star's tome, From Here to the Great Unknown, she claimed that when the actor was dating her mom,

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