The aborted pregnancy was Presley’s second with Chicago-born musician Danny Keough.
Months later, she discovered that she was pregnant again, at just 19 years old.
“I didnt know what to do, and neither did Danny, Presley recalls.
Lisa Marie Presley.Michael Tran/FilmMagic
“I ended up having an abortion.
And it was the stupidest thing Ive ever done in my whole life.”
She continues, I was devastated.
Danny Keough and Lisa Marie Presley in 1991.Paul Harris/Getty
I did it and we both cried.
We were both destroyed and not long after that we fell apart and broke up.
I couldnt live with myself.
Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presely.WWD/Penske Media via Getty
I could not believe that I had had an abortion.
I was so upset with myself.
So I made a plan, she writes.
I planned and I plotted and I schemed.
It was a group effort.
I had it down to a sciencethen purposely planned a trip to see Danny on the ship.
Danny had no idea of my plan.
But I didnt really care anymore what he thought about it, Presley admits in the memoir.
I didnt care if he wanted to be part of it or not.
I thought, Im going to have this child.
There is a child that I need to be having.
like forgive me and stay with me until I get pregnant again.
“Danny knew he had to marry me, writes Presley, the only child ofElvisandPriscilla Presley.
I didnt really mean to, but I did.
Prior to hersudden death in 2023, Presley requested her daughters help with finishing her long-gestating memoir.
My mom subsequently told me every detail of timing her ovulation for that moment in Aruba.
He was in shock because he never planned to be married or have kids.
But something made him go, ‘Lets do it.’
So he quickly recovered, picked up the phone, and said simply, Okay.
She wedNicolas Cagein Aug. 2002, and he filed for divorce a few months later.
Ten years into their marriage, Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood and a contentious custody battle ensued.
From Here to the Great Unknownis out now.
