Priscilla Presley has revealed that Elvis once asked if she wanted an abortion while she was pregnant with their only child, Lisa Marie, in a new memoir packed with stark confessions.

The 80-year-old former Dallas actress recounts the story in Softly, As I Leave You, on sale Tuesday, and obtained by Page Six.

Presley recalls how she first met Elvis when she was 14 and he was 24 and stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. They wed in 1967 and quickly discovered she was pregnant.

“Our wedding had meant I could finally come out in the open,” Priscilla writes. “I was so excited. But when I got pregnant on my wedding night, those dreams fell apart. Neither Elvis nor I was ready for a child.”

The young couple, she says, spent weeks in silence, wracked with anxiety. “At my lowest point, I e

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