Lisa Marie Presley Admits Trapping Ex-Husband By Getting Pregnant: Memoir

Lisa Marie Presley’s Posthumous Memoir Reveals Deeply Personal Struggles, Pregnancy with Daughter Riley Keough

In her posthumous memoir "From Here to the Great Unknown," Lisa Marie Presley opens up about some of the most intimate and emotional moments of her life, including the story of how she became pregnant with her daughter, Riley Keough.

Presley shared how, after undergoing an abortion—a decision she later called "the stupidest thing I’ve ever done"—she felt a deep need to redeem herself. Determined to have a child, she “planned and plotted” to conceive. In her memoir, she reveals that she took careful steps to ensure she was ovulating when she joined her then-boyfriend, Danny Keough, on a cruise ship where his band was performing.

“I didn’t care if he wanted to be a part of it or not. I felt that I had to make amends because I still couldn’t believe I had had an abortion,” Presley wrote, as quoted by People. She described how she communicated with the child she had lost, 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.”

Two weeks after that emotional decision, Presley discovered she was pregnant with Riley, who was born in May 1989. In her memoir, Presley candidly admitted that she "trapped" Danny with the pregnancy, adding, “I didn’t really mean to, but I did.”

Presley and Danny Keough were married from 1988 to 1994, sharing two children: Riley and Benjamin Storm Keough, who was born in 1992. Tragically, Benjamin passed away in July 2020. Riley, now 35, revealed in an interview in September that her mother, Lisa Marie, died in January 2023 from complications following surgery. However, Riley believes her mother's death was truly the result of a "broken heart" after losing her son Benjamin.