Lisa Marie Presley deeply regretted getting an abortion while she was dating Danny Keough.
In one chapter of her posthumous book From Here to the Great Unknown, the singer-songwriter opened up about her decision to terminate a pregnancy while she was in a relationship with the musician.
“I ended up having an abortion. And it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life. I was devastated,” she recalled. “I did it and we both cried. We were both destroyed and not long after that we fell apart and broke up. I couldn’t live with myself.”
Lisa Marie couldn’t get over the experience and “planned and plotted and schemed” to get pregnant again.
“I didn’t care if he wanted to be a part of it or not. I felt that I had to redeem, to make amends, because I still couldn’t believe I had had an abortion,” the star, who was the only child of Elvis Presley, stated. “I thought, ‘I’m going to have this child. There is a child I need to be having.’
“I would be talking to the lost child, saying, ‘I’m so sorry, I can’t believe I f**king did that. Please forgive me and stay with me until I get pregnant again,'” she continued.
Lisa Marie went on to admit that she “trapped” Danny, whom she was married to from 1988 until 1994.
“I didn’t really mean to, but I did,” the artist confessed.
Lisa Marie and Danny went on to welcome daughter Riley in 1989 and son Benjamin three years later. Benjamin committed suicide at the age of 27 in 2020.
Before Lisa Marie died at the age of 54 in January 2023, she asked Riley, 35, to complete her long-gestating book.
From Here to the Great Unknown is now available to purchase.
