“It would’ve been a nightmare scenario for me to live through.”
Stevie Nicksis speaking from personal experience when she defends a woman’s right to choose.
“I got pregnant and it was like, ‘Why?
Stevie Nicks.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
I have an IUD.
I am totally protected.
I have a great gynecologist.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.Lester Cohen/Getty Images
How come this has happened?
What the heck?'”
“I’m like, ‘This can’t be happening.’
Fleetwood Mac is three years in.
And it’s big.
And we’re going into our third album.
It was like, ‘Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.'”
She said having the baby with Henley would have “destroyed” Fleetwood Mac for more reasons than one.
It would’ve been a nightmare scenario for me to live through."
She added that ultimately she felt the choice was hers to make.
“And you know what?
If people want to be mad at me, be mad at me,” she said.
“I don’t care.
I went this way, and I’ve done great.”
Nicks also addressed her decision in a newRolling Stoneprofile, in which she explained her thought process behind it.
“‘Now what the hell am I going to do?
I cannot have a child,'” she recalled to the outlet.
I wouldn’t say I just need nine months.
I would say I need a couple of years, and that would break up the band, period.
So my decision was to have an abortion."
“Abortion rights, that was really my generations fight,” she toldThe Guardian.
“And there were a lot of drugs.
I was doing a lot of drugs…
I would have had to walk away.”
And I thought, ‘You know what?
That’s really important.
That was my world’s mission."
