Stevie Nicks Says Abortion Kept Fleetwood Mac Alive

Last month, Stevie Nicknames released a new single, “Lighthouseinspired by his overthrow. Roe v. wade. Now she talked about how close abortion at home came to her: Open CBS Sunday Morning She said last weekend that if she had not had an abortion in the ’70s, she believed it would have heralded the end. Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks in question:

“I got pregnant and I was like, ‘Why? I have an IUD. I am completely protected. I have a wonderful gynecologist. How did this happen? What’s happening?’ I said, ‘This can’t be happening.’ Fleetwood Mac’s third year is a big deal and we’re going into our third album. It was like, ‘Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.’ It would destroy Fleetwood Mac. (…) I would do my best to get through every day in the studio expecting a child, but for the most part, having a child with Don Henley wasn’t much of a big deal with Lindsey and Fleetwood Mac. I – we were separated for two or three years. “That would be a nightmare scenario for me to live through.”

Nicks also spoke about the situation a new one Rolling stone reporthe stated that this occurred in 1977 or 1978. He said: “What do I do now? I cannot have children. I’m not the type of woman who would hand my baby over to a nanny, not in a million years. So we’d be taking a baby around the world and I wouldn’t do that to my baby. I can’t just say I need nine months. I can say that I need a few years and that will cause the band to break up. So my decision was to have an abortion. “If people want to get mad at me about it, I don’t really care because my life was my life and my plan was my plan and it’s been that way since fourth grade.”

watch Nicks CBS Sunday Morning above.