Six years and many rumors later, Fleetwood Mac vocalist, Stevie Nicks, is sharing the real reason why she completely cut ties with guitarist and former boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham, who was also fired from the band
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Nicks recently sat down with Rolling Stone, where she recalled the exact moment she recognized she no longer wanted to be involved with Buckingham and it came after she says she gave him “more than 300 million chances.”
“I think that all just happened the way it should have", she expressed before detailing, "It happened one night, not planned, at a MusiCares [benefit concert].”
She continued, "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,” she shared before saying her eyes were opened to Buckingham’s ill attitude, especially at the event.
"That’s when he wasn’t very nice to anybody; he wasn’t very nice to Harry Styles,” she shared. “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.'”
Communication was cut off after that fateful night, and the pair wasn't in the same space again until 2023 when they both attended bandmate, Christine McVie's funeral. "Christine threw down a hurricane on top of Nobu, which is where we had it,” Nicks recalls of the weather at the event. “Almost blew the whole place away, honest to God. Tore down the entire deck that was all decorated and everything. So it was kind of crazy. We all felt like she was there, because it was really intense.”
She continued, “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.”
While the pair have experienced their fair share of ups and downs, Nicks says she still wishes Buckingham the best. “I hope he lives a long life and continues to go into a studio and work with other people,” she says. “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.”
With respect still there, Nicks made it clear that won’t translate to a reunion of any kind for any of the bandmates. "There is no more Fleetwood Mac now," she stated. “When Christine [McVie] died, Fleetwood Mac died. We cannot replace her."