Stevie Nicks says if she hadn’t had an abortion ‘there would have been no Fleetwood Mac’

‘I would have had to walk away,’ says musician

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Stevie Nicks has opened up about having an abortion in 1979, which is when Fleetwood Mac were at the height of their success.

“If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac.," she told The Guardian.

“There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly,” the 72-year-old continued. 

"And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs… I would have had to walk away.” 

The “Edge of Seventeen” singer also spoke about her concerns regarding abortion rights in the run-up to the US election in November.

“Abortion rights, that was really my generation’s fight," she said before going on to reference Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court.

"If President Trump wins this election and puts the judge he wants in, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back-alley abortions.”

The singer also spoke about age differences in heterosexual relationships, saying she finds it “annoying” that so many men in her generation pair up with younger women.

“Men are not having families with younger women because they want to have families, they’re doing it because they need to have a younger wife so they can feel that rush of romance again,” she told the publication. 

“I did it once, though, you know. I had a relationship with a man when I was 50 and he was 30. He was just a really lovely man. And I realised that I’d already lived 30 to 50; I didn’t want to live it again.”

Nicks also touched on the subject of botox, explaining that it “makes you look like you’re in a satanic cult”.

“I only had it once and it destroyed my face for four months,” she said. 

"I would look in the mirror and try and lift my eyebrow and go: ‘Oh, there you are, Satan’s angry daughter.’ Never again. I watch a lot of news and I see all the lady newscasters looking like Satan’s angry daughters, too.”

You can read the full interview here.