**Priscilla Presley Reveals Elvis Asked About Abortion After Wedding Night Pregnancy**
*Published: September 22, 2025, 7:00 p.m. ET*
Priscilla Presley has revealed that Elvis Presley openly asked her if she wanted to have an abortion after she unexpectedly became pregnant on their wedding night, RadarOnline.com reports.
The revelation comes from Elvis’ widow in her highly anticipated new memoir, *Softly As I Leave You*. Priscilla fell in love with Elvis when she was just 14 years old. The couple married in 1967, when she was 21, and soon after, the *Naked Gun* star learned she was pregnant with their only daughter, Lisa Marie.
In her new tell-all memoir, the now 80-year-old confessed that after years of having to keep their romance a secret, the pregnancy discovery came as an overwhelming shock.
“Our wedding had meant I could finally come out in the open,” she writes. “I was so excited. But when I got pregnant on my wedding night, those dreams fell apart.”
She added that neither she nor Elvis felt ready to be parents and confessed to wondering if it might have been easier not to have the child.
“For weeks, Elvis and I worried in silence about what was to come. At my lowest point, I even wondered how I’d feel if I had an accident and miscarried,” she shares. “I felt so guilty that I was even having these thoughts.”
### Pregnancy Was A ‘Wake-Up Call’
Seeing the emotional toll the surprise pregnancy was taking on Priscilla, Elvis asked her a difficult question.
“(He) looked at me one day and asked if I wanted to have an abortion,” Priscilla confesses. “He told me he’d support whatever I wanted.”
She describes his question as a “wake-up call.”
“The enormity of it hit me head-on, and I began to cry. I told him, ‘No! We can’t do that. This is our baby!’”
Elvis and Priscilla fell in love with Lisa Marie the moment they first saw her. However, their marriage began to unravel soon after, leading Priscilla to leave the King in 1972 amid her affair with martial arts master Mike Stone.
### Elvis’ Rage Over Divorce and Affair
In her memoir, Priscilla reveals that Elvis was humiliated and enraged when she announced she was leaving him.
“Elvis found the thought of me with another man unbearable,” she writes. “In the weeks after my departure, he told the guys that ‘Mike had to die.’ He even asked Joe (Esposito) to find a hit man.”
Priscilla claims that Esposito informed her about Elvis’ demands and warned her to “be careful” and stay away from her ex.
Eventually, Elvis calmed down and dropped the alleged “hit” on Priscilla. She dated Stone for three more years before they parted ways in 1975.
### Priscilla’s Unhappiness During Marriage
Although Priscilla and Elvis appeared to have it all during their marriage, she was reportedly desperately unhappy.
Her escape was attending dance classes “to break out a little bit,” she says. Priscilla also took karate lessons, earning a green belt after Elvis introduced her to instructor Mike Stone. A friend confided, “Mike became Priscilla’s closest confidant.”
As their relationship deteriorated, Elvis and Priscilla divorced in 1973. The breakup was traumatic for Elvis, worsened when Priscilla began dating Stone.
“He was devastated for two reasons: Elvis was still in love with her, and he had lost control over her,” Chris Hutchins, author of *Elvis: A Personal Memoir*, previously said. “Suddenly, Priscilla was in another man’s life, and it made Elvis very, very angry. He was a good man, but he went mad with rage.”
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