“You could not say that I didn’t give him more than 300 million chances”: Stevie Nicks reflects on cutting ties with ex-boyfriend and Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham
Stevie Nicks has reflected on her relationship with former boyfriend and Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.
The singer reveals the moment she cut ties with Buckingham, whom she’d previously dated from 1972 to ’76. The guitarist departed Fleetwood Mac in 2018, whereas Nicks continued with the band up until their dissolution in 2022, following keyboardist/singer Christine McVie’s death that November.
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“I think that all just happened the way it should have,” Nicks tells Rolling Stone, discussing how she and Buckingham went their separate ways in the late 2010s. “It happened one night, not planned, at a MusiCares [benefit concert]. I didn’t even tell anybody it had happened in my head until the whole ceremony was over.”
She continues: That’s when he wasn’t very nice to anybody; he wasn’t very nice to Harry Styles. I could hear my mum 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 mum 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.’”
Nicks adds that the only time she and Buckingham have exchanged words since 2018 was at the funeral of McVie. “We all felt like she was there, because it was really intense,” the singer remembers. “The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes. 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.”
Last year, Nicks said she could see “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac after McVie died. The keyboardist had been with the band for 52 years by the time she passed. “We did go out on the road and do a year-and-a-half tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell [in 2019 with McVie],” Nicks told Vulture. “We had a really great time and it was a huge tour. That was there in the realm of possibility.”
She went on: “But when Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is it? You know what I mean?”
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