JUST IN: Lisa Marie Presley calls abortion while dating Danny Keough ‘stupidest thing I’ve ever done’

Lisa Marie Presley reflected on an abortion she had during her relationship with Danny Keough and called it the ‘stupidest thing I’ve ever done.’

The late star opened up about the regret in her posthumous memoir, From Here To The Great Unknown – which was officially released on Tuesday, October 8.

Lisa was married to Keough from 1988 until their divorce in 1994 – and welcomed daughter Riley Keough, 35, and son Benjamin – who passed away in 2020 at age 27 by suicide.

In an excerpt obtained by People, Presley had written, ‘The first time I got pregnant I didn’t even know it.’

‘During the first four months we dated I had ended up in the ER with horrible pains and they rushed me into surgery.’ She penned, ‘The doctors thought it was my appendix, but when I came around, they told me I’d had an ectopic pregnancy (while they were in there they took my appendix out, too).’

‘I had never gotten pregnant with any other person, which is fascinating because I’d been equally sloppy, not using birth control or whatever.’But with Danny it happened that first time, and then it happened again when we got back together,’ Lisa Marie continued.

She then became pregnant a second time and wrote, ‘I ended up having an abortion. And it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life. I was devastated.’

‘I did it and we both cried,’ Presley said of herself and Keough. ‘We were both destroyed and not long after that we fell apart and broke up. I couldn’t live with myself.’

Lisa Marie explained that afterwards, she had ‘schemed’ to know when she was ovulating – and went onto a cruise ship in Aruba where Danny was set to perform with his band.

‘I planned and I plotted and I schemed. I pinpointed exactly when I was ovulating – I even went to Memphis first to hang out with my aunt Patsy and work out how to make it happen.’

She added, ‘It was a group effort. I had it down to a science – then purposely planned a trip to see Danny on the ship.’