Before her passing, Lisa Marie Presley opened up about her most difficult memories. In her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown —which was completed by her daughter Riley Keough after her death — Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley 's daughter got candid about her pregnancies with Danny Keough , whom she was married to from 1988 to 1994. "The first time I got pregnant I didn't even know it," Lisa Marie wrote in her memoir.
"During the first four months we dated I had ended up in the ER with horrible pains and they rushed me into surgery." The "Shine" singer explained that doctors at first thought she had an issue with her appendix, but after surgery she was told it was actually an ectopic pregnancy , which is when a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus. "I had never gotten pregnant with any other person," she recalled, "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." According to Lisa Marie— who died at the age of 54 in January 2023 due to a small bowel obstruction following bariatric surgery—when she got pregnant a second time, she and Danny weren't sure what to do. "I ended up having an abortion," she wrote.
"And it was the stupidest thing I've ever done in my whole life. I was devastated." After the procedure, she recalled both she and Danny cried, explaining they "were both destroyed and not long after t.