Lisa Marie Presley Calls Abortion She Had While Dating Danny Keough 'Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done'

Lisa Marie Presley has revealed she regrets having an abortion in her new memoir.

In her book From here to the Great Unknownpublished posthumously, Elvis Presley’s daughter revealed that she had an abortion while in a relationship with Danny Keough.

“The first time I got pregnant, I didn’t even know it. During the first four months we were dating, I ended up in the emergency room in terrible pain and they rushed me to surgery,” Presley writes. “The doctors thought it was my appendix, but when I came to, they told me I had an ectopic pregnancy (while they were there they also removed my appendix).”

“I never got pregnant with anyone else, which is fascinating because I was just as careless, not using birth control or anything. But with Danny it happened the first time and then it happened again when we got back together.”

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Presley — who died at age 54 in January 2023 from a small bowel obstruction, a long-term complication of bariatric surgery — writes that when she got pregnant the second time, she didn’t know what to do, and neither did Keough.

“I ended up having an abortion. And it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. I was devastated,” Presley remembers. “I did and we both cried. We were both devastated and not long after that we separated and broke up. I couldn’t live with myself.”

Saying she couldn’t get over the fact that she miscarried, Presley says she “planned, plotted and plotted” to find out when she ovulated, then followed Keough onto a cruise ship where his band was performing.

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“I didn’t care if he wanted to be a part of it or not. I felt like I had to make amends, make amends, because I still couldn’t believe I’d miscarried,” Presley says. “I thought I was going to have this child. There is a child I need to have.”

“I would talk to the lost child, saying, ‘I’m so sorry, I can’t believe I f—— did that. Please forgive me and stay with me until I get pregnant again.'”

After leaving Aruba, Presley waited two weeks before discovering she was pregnant. The two then married, with Presley admitting that she “trapped him. I didn’t really mean to, but I did.”

Their daughter Riley Keough was born in 1989, and later they had a son, Benjamin Storm.

From here to the Great Unknown is now available.

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