Stevie Nicks says Fleetwood Mac would have been 'destroyed' if she hadn't had an abortion in the late '70s: 'It would've been a nightmare scenario for me to live through.'
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 with. Emphasizing the importance of women having options, Nicks opened up about her own surprise pregnancy, which came on the heels of
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."profile, 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.
Turning to her own experience, she stressed how important it was that she had the opportunity to be in charge of her body and terminate the pregnancy. "There's just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly," she said. "And there were a lot of drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs… I would have had to walk away."
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