This weekend in a story on CBS Sunday Morning. Stevie Nicks spoke from personal experience when she defends a woman's right to choose.
With her latest single, "The Lighthouse," the iconic singer-songwriter wades back into the fight for abortion access, something she discussed in a new interview. Emphasizing the importance of women having options, Nicks opened up about her own surprise pregnancy, which came on the heels of Rumours, her 1977 blockbuster album with Fleetwood Mac, when the group was achieving massive fame.
"I got pregnant and it was like, 'Why? I have an IUD. I am totally protected. I have a great gynecologist. How come this has happened? What the heck?'" Nicks recalled. "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 had just ended her relationship with her Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham and was dating Eagles singer Don Henley. She said having the baby with Henley would have "destroyed" Fleetwood Mac for more reasons than one.
"I would've, like, tried my best to get through, you know, being in the studio every single day expecting a child," she told CBS Sunday Morning. "Having a child with Don Henley would not have gone over big in Fleetwood Mac, with Lindsey and me — we had been broken up for two or three years. 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. Had I made the other choice, had I gone the other way, I'd have been a great mom. I went this way, and I've done great."
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