In her posthumously published memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley candidly discusses her regret over an abortion she had while dating Danny Keough. The daughter of Elvis Presley reveals the emotional turmoil surrounding the decision, calling it “the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life.”
Presley recounts her first pregnancy, which was unexpected and led to a trip to the emergency room due to severe pain. Doctors discovered she had experienced an ectopic pregnancy and removed her appendix during the procedure. She noted that despite being in relationships where she did not use birth control, this was the only time she became pregnant, and it happened again when she and Keough reunited.
The second pregnancy brought about a difficult decision for Presley and Keough, who were both uncertain about what to do. “I ended up having an abortion. And it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life. I was devastated,” Presley writes, expressing the deep emotional scars it left on both of them. She recalled crying together, feeling utterly destroyed, which ultimately contributed to their breakup.
Unable to shake the regret of her abortion, Presley described how she meticulously tracked her ovulation and followed Keough onto a cruise ship where his band was performing. “I didn’t care if he wanted to be a part of it or not,” she explained. “I felt that I had to redeem, to make amends, because I still couldn’t believe I had had an abortion.”
In a heartfelt moment, Presley said she spoke to the lost child, pleading for forgiveness and expressing her desire to have a baby. After leaving Aruba, she discovered she was pregnant two weeks later. The couple subsequently married, although Presley admitted, “I trapped him. I didn’t really mean to, but I did.”
Presley and Keough welcomed their daughter, Riley, in 1989, and later had a son, Benjamin Storm. Lisa Marie Presley passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54, due to complications from bariatric surgery.
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