Stevie Nicks says she's done giving second chances to her ex-boyfriend and former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.
She tells Rolling Stone the last time she spoke to him was January 9th of last year at the "Celebration of Life" for Christine McVie, who'd died the previous November. "I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances."
She went on to say that the straw the broke the camel's back was in January 2018 at the MusiCares benefit in New York. "I didn’t even tell anybody it had happened in my head until the whole ceremony was over. I took with me that night a song that I had done with LeAnn Rimes called 'Borrowed.' I took it with me to play for him because I thought we could do this song beautifully.
"That’s when he wasn’t very nice to anybody; he wasn’t very nice to Harry Styles. I could hear my mom saying, 'Are you really going to spend the next 15 years of your life with this man?' I could hear my very pragmatic father — and by the way, my mom and dad liked Lindsey a lot — saying, 'It’s time for you guys to get a divorce.' Between those two, I said, 'I’m done.'"
But, she says she wishes him well. "I hope he lives a long life and continues to go into a studio and work with other people. He’s also an icon, and he can teach people. He’s not stopped in his tracks. He can still make music and have fun."
As for her life, she says, "I’ll probably live to be hatefully 95 years old. I have no want to be that old, honestly. I mean, I’ll have an electric scooter, and I will be raging and I will keep dancing. But I’m not looking forward to that, really — I think that’s too old. My mom died at 84, and my dad died at about 80, but I’m a younger person at 76 than they were at 76. So I figured 88, 89...
"I’m not afraid of dying, but what I am afraid of is not getting everything together, because I’m so busy. And that’s why I’m really glad this tour’s over, so that I can go and work on an album. I haven’t been able to do a lot of the creative things that I love in many, many years. I draw, I write songs, and I write poetry. I’d like to make a perfume because I actually have a smell that I love. I like to design blankets. Cashmere blankets are my favorite thing. That is what I buy for my friends if there’s a special occasion. I bought [my friend Taylor Swift's boyfriend] Travis Kelce a blanket."
On the health side, she's has "wet macular degeneration, and it is not a good thing. I was seeing all these colors, big things of purple. I was having, like, acid trips. And I’m going, 'I’m not taking any acid, so I don’t understand what this is.' Now, every six, seven, eight, nine weeks, I have to have a shot in each one of my eyes. That’s going to be for the rest of my life.
"There’s dry macular degeneration, which my mom had. Her whole thing was doing the financial books for my dad, because she was a financial little wizard. When she was about 80, it was really hard for her to see. In a way, I think it killed her because she was so brokenhearted that she could no longer do this. So when I got diagnosed with this, all of a sudden, I’m going like, 'You know what? You need to finish these drawings, because what if you start to lose your sight?' I haven’t drawn in years…but my drawings are as important to me as my songs."
Stevie adds that she hopes to have an exhibit of her drawings next year.
She also reveals that Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie's wife Julie passed away earlier this year.