Stevie Nicks is a goddess from my childhood, and I still dig her music and style. I appreciate that she’s been wearing the same outfit for the past 40 years and still owns it. Not many people could get away with that! Stevie is known most prominently for Fleetwood Mac, but I’ll always be partial to this duet with Tom Petty. Makes me teary every time I hear it. #old

The last time we heard from Stevie, she was defending Kristen Stewart’s biscuit. Stevie’s been touring with a reunited Fleetwood Mac for the past few years. As a group, they’ve been through hell and back. Many of the members have slept with each other. Stevie’s promoting a new solo album, 24 Karat Gold, which is a collection of songs she wrote long ago but never released. One of the songs is about Stevie’s love affair with Lindsey Buckingham, the band’s male guitarist. From Stevie’s description, it doesn’t sound like a complete smear song. We’ll see.

Stevie had some stories to tell Billboard. She talks aging (she’s 66 now), bikinis and her cocaine addiction from the 1980s. A doctor stopped her from doing a potentially fatal last line, and she’s been clean (from coke) ever since. Oh, and Stevie was once pregnant with Don Henley’s baby. Scandal:

On aging: “Part of me is feeling extremely old now, and part of me is feeling extremely young. Because I look at these pictures and realize I worried about things that I shouldn’t have been worrying about. Like the fact that I had little marionette lines around my mouth when I was 29, and I was complaining about them. I wouldn’t go out to the beach without a sarong from my neck to my ankles. Now I see a picture of myself from that era in a bikini and I’m like, ‘You looked great. And you missed out on a lot of fun vacations, because you were so sure that you were fat.'”

Her advice to young women: “Spend more time in a bikini! All the little girls in their 20s, they’re terrified of looking like they’re not 16. And I’m like, ‘Oh, just get ready for what’s to come.’ It’s going to be way harder for them. The world has become a much more vain place.”

The doctor who warned her off one more line of coke: “He said I’d have a brain hemorrhage, actually. Sometimes you can’t see it in yourself, but you sure as heck can see it in someone else. And suicide was never my MO. I’m basically a happy person. I was a happy person back then. I just got addicted to coke, and that was a very bad drug for me. It was obviously a very bad drug for Mabel [Normand, an actress] too. She had a gang of rich kids, like Lindsay Lohan today. That same bunch of girls comes around every 15 years.”

The song “Sara”: “Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara. But there was another woman in my life named Sara, who shortly after that became Mick’s wife, Sara Fleetwood…. [Henley’s take] is accurate, but not the entirety of it.”

Why hasn’t she written a memoir yet? “The world is not ready for my memoir, I guarantee you. All of the men I hung out with are on their third wives by now, and the wives are all under 30. If I were to write what really happened between 1972 and now, a lot of people would be very angry with me. It’ll happen some day, just not for a very long time. I won’t write a book until everybody is so old that they no longer care. Like, ‘I’m 90, I don’t care what you write about me.’ I am loyal to a fault. And I have a certain loyalty to these people that I love because I do love them, and I will always love them. I cannot throw any of them under the bus until I absolutely know that they will not care.”

Revenge is a good reason to write: “Yes, but you also have to be kind. Just because a relationship ended badly, and sh–ty things happened, you cannot tell that to the world. But you can write a song about it, in three verses and a bridge and a chorus, that tells the really magical moments.”

[From Billboard]

Stevie decided not to have Don Henley’s child. He talked about it to the press a long time ago, but this is the first confirmation from Stevie. She’s had a wild life and still hasn’t settled down except for losing her taste for cocaine. I’m glad she hasn’t written her memoir yet. Not that I don’t want to read about all of her rock ‘n’ roll debauchery. Stevie doesn’t want to throw anyone under the bus, which is a rare move in music. She’s also saving some tales for the future. Wise move.

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