There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. What did it mean to be able to make that choice? “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. Nicks terminated a pregnancy in 1979, when Fleetwood Mac were at their height and she was dating the Eagles singer Don Henley. There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. If President Trump wins this election and puts the judge he wants in, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back-alley abortions.” “Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight. Women’s rights have been on Nicks’ mind since the death of her “hero”, the US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last month. She drummed that into me, and I’m so glad she did.” And you will never depend upon a man to support you.
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“She said to me: you will never stand in a room full of men and feel like you can’t keep up with them. Nicks was close to her mother, Barbara, who pushed to get her career back after she had children.
It’s your real mother, walking into your kitchen and saying” – she puts on a rasp – “‘Don’t drink any more of that shit.’” She pauses, waiting for me to laugh, then cackles. Now, that’s not some romantic, gothic story of your mother coming back to you. “I’d been sick and chugging down the Hawaiian Punch. “And I felt something almost tap my shoulder and this voice go: ‘It’s that Gatorade you’re drinking,’” she says. Just after her mother died, in 2012, Nicks was standing in her kitchen with “really bad acid reflux”. I absolutely know that my mom is around all the time.” I’ve always believed in spiritual forces. She says that, for all her fears about her career, “some people are really afraid of dying, but I’m not. I ask about her approach to spirituality. Nicks is unabashedly funny, dry as a bone, often sidling into sarcasm. The night she fell ill last year, she had just become the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice – an honour that reflects her wild success as one of the lead singers of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, as a writer and singer of raw, magical songs about love and freedom, including Dreams, Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman, Landslide and Edge of Seventeen. It is nearly midnight in LA when we speak on the phone not a problem for Nicks, who is “totally nocturnal”. My mother said to me: you will never depend upon a man to support you. “I’m not, at 72 years old, willing to give up my career.” “It isn’t just singing it’s that I would never perform again, that I would never dance across the stages of the world again.” She pauses and sighs. What would it mean to her to stop singing? “It would kill me,” she says. She fell seriously ill in March 2019, ending up in intensive care with double pneumonia after that shock, she fears contracting Covid-19 could end her singing career: “My mom was on a ventilator for three weeks when she had open-heart surgery and she was hoarse for the rest of her life.” “My assistant, God bless her, she puts on her hazmat suit and goes to get food, otherwise we’d starve to death,” she says. She has barely left her home in Los Angeles this year. Stevie Nicks has been taking the pandemic even more seriously than most.
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