Lisa Marie Presley Opens Up To Oprah With New Intimate Details About Her Life As Mrs. Jackson

That fear might be the reason why Lisa wasn’t Michael’s first baby mama… and he was very determined to be a dad, she says.

From the day they said “I do” in 1994, Lisa Marie says Michael wanted her to have a baby.

“I did want to, but I just wanted to make sure,” she says. “I was looking into the future and thinking, ‘I don’t ever want to get into a custody battle with him.'” Over time, she says her hesitation became a source of contention. Then, two months after their divorce was final, it was announced in October 1996 that Debbie Rowe was pregnant with Michael’s child—an act Lisa Marie calls “retaliatory.”

“She was there the whole time telling him that she would [have his child],” Lisa Marie says. “He would tell me, ‘Debbie said she’ll do it.’ That’s how he knew to handle it, ‘If you’re not going to do it, this person will.'”

Who knew MJ’s personal life was this complex, LOL! MJ was pimpin’ on the low.

When we were together, we were really in love, and then we had the rough patches. And I had to make a decision to walk because I saw the drugs and the doctors coming in, and they scared me. They put me right back into what I went through with my father. That ended it. But we still spent four more years [together] after we divorced.

And here we were thinking their swirl-thing was a publicity stunt!