Years later, she saw herself in an unexpected historical figure: Marie Antoinette. She explained that she felt connected to Antoinette in several ways, including tragedy. She also believes that in a past life, she died in a manner similar to Antoinette.(Cheatsheet)
Once she joined Fleetwood Mac, Nicks’ financial struggles ended almost immediately. She vowed that she’d never check another price tag in her life. The rest of the band also leaned into excess. They hosted lavish parties, ordered expensive champagne, stayed in luxurious hotels, and snorted heaps of cocaine.
Tom Petty Once Said Stevie Nicks ‘Does Not Live in the Real World’
Recalling on that period of her life, Nicks draws parallels to the last Empress of France, Marie Antoniette d'Asburgo-Lorena. She noticed this while watching the Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette.
“I went to see that film and it reminded me a lot of myself and the people surrounding me when we first started with Fleetwood Mac,” she said, per the book Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters. “The clothes and the champagne and how young they all were — and it really touched me. Because we were young too and there was a tragedy for all of us also, just in what it did to all of our lives and taking them out of ‘the real world,’ as Tom Petty would say.”
Nicks feels connected to the French monarch because she believes she was “put to death, like Marie Antoinette” in a past life. According to the book Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, and Rumours by Zoë Howe, Nicks holds a firm belief that she was decapitated in a former life. Because of this, Nicks has difficulties leaning her head back and exposing her neck.
A tragedy inspired Stevie Nicks to write ‘Gypsy’ (Watch on VMZ) A tragedy would later ensure that the song saw the light of day with Fleetwood Mac following the sad death of Nicks’ best friend Robin Anderson,
Nicks also said that times ago, there was nothing more important than Joe Walsh, I would've married.The singer said she snorted so much cocaine it tore a hole through her nose
Stevie Nicks opens up about her battles with addiction and her love life in the new book, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis,
According to The Daily Mail, Nicks who was also linked to Eagles frontman Don Henley, fell for the band’s guitarist in 1983 and revealed that when she meet Walsh she thought, “I can never be far from this person again.”
"We were probably the perfect, complete, crazy pair. He was the one I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for a little bit, anyway. Not a lot. I loved him. I really looked after him, and that’s what probably scared Joe the most. We were busy superstars and we were doing way too much drugs. We were really, seriously drug addicts. We were a couple on the way to hell." (Stevie Sicks)
Despite romances with Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and Don Henley, Nicks says Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was the love of her life.
In 1986 Walsh called her and told her not to contact him again.
She spoke about their break up saying: "It nearly killed me. We had to break up or we thought we’d die. We were just too excessive. But there was no closure. It took me years to get over it — if I ever did. It’s very sad but at least we survived. There was no other man for me. I look back at all the men in my life, and there was only one that I can honestly say I could truly have lived with every day for the rest of my life, because there was respect and we loved to do the same things."
Their breakup was bitter when he dumped her to head off to tour in Australia The 69-year-old admits that overcoming her addiction to pills was harder than quitting her $1 million cocaine habit-
The Fleetwood Mac singer said she'll never forgive the 'groupie' psychiatrist who just wanted to hear 'rock and roll' stories so he kept her hooked on pills.
After going through an intense 47-day rehab detox in 1993, Nicks came out clean and began working on new music.
Grammy winning singer-songwriter, Stevie Nicks snorted so much cocaine and became so addicted to the drug that she had to be shadowed to keep from falling off stage when performing and needed to have someone tuck her into bed at night.
'All of us were drug addicts. But there was a point where I was the worst drug addict. I was a girl, I was fragile, and I was doing a lot of coke and I was in danger of brain damage', she told author Stephen Davis for his upcoming book, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks.