Lisa Marie Presley Shares She Had Abortion While Dating Danny Keough

According to Lisa Marie—who died astatine the property of 54 in January 2023 owed to a tiny bowel obstruction pursuing bariatric surgery—when she got large a 2nd time, she and Danny weren't definite what to do.

"I ended up having an abortion," she wrote. "And it was the stupidest happening I've ever done successful my full life. I was devastated."

After the procedure, she recalled some she and Danny cried, explaining they "were some destroyed and not agelong aft that we fell isolated and broke up. I couldn't unrecorded with myself."

Shortly after, Danny joined a set connected a cruise ship, portion Lisa Marie traveled astir Europe.

"All the while, I could not judge that I had had an abortion," she remembered. "I was truthful upset with myself."

And that was erstwhile she began to signifier a plan, writing, "I plotted and I schemed. I pinpointed precisely erstwhile I was ovulating."

Lisa Marie went to sojourn Danny, and the 2 spent the nighttime unneurotic without her telling him she was hoping to go pregnant.

"I didn't truly attraction anymore what helium thought astir it," she explained. "I didn't attraction if helium wanted to beryllium a portion of it oregon not. I felt that I had to redeem, to marque amends, due to the fact that I inactive couldn't judge I had had an abortion. I thought, 'I'm going to person this child. There is simply a kid I request to beryllium having.'"

The "Lights Out" vocalist remembers talking to her mislaid child, saying, "'I'm so sorry, I can't judge I f--king did that. Please forgive maine and enactment with maine until I get large again.'"

According to Lisa Marie, 2 weeks aft her sojourn to Danny, she recovered retired she was large and the 2 were joined soon afterwards.

"Danny knew helium had to wed me," she said. "I trapped him. I didn't truly mean to, but I did."

The mates welcomed Riley successful May 1989 and son Benjamin Keough in October 1992. Two years aft their divorce, she went connected to marry Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage and then Michael Lockwood, with whom she shared 15-year-old duplicate daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood.

Sadly, her son Benjamin died by termination successful 2020 astatine the property of 27, an lawsuit that Riley believes contributed to her mother's ain death.

"My ma tried her champion to find spot for maine and my younger sisters aft Ben died, but we knew however overmuch symptom she was in," she told People in September. "My ma physically died from the aft effects of her surgery, but we each knew she died of a breached heart."