Stevie Nicks has opened up about getting an abortion in 1979 and revealed that if she decided otherwise it would’ve “destroyed” Fleetwood Mac . The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee — who was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Eagles singer Don Henley when she learned she was pregnant in the late ’70s — told “ CBS Sunday Mornings ” that she had no idea how big the band “was gonna get” at the time. “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 told correspondent Tracy Smith. “So you took all the precautions?” Smith asked. “Yes.
And 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,’” Nicks replied. Nicks said it wouldn’t have gone over well with the band had she been expecting a child with Henley, mostly due to her breakup with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham roughly two or three years prior.
“It would’ve been a nightmare scenario for me to live through,” she said. Nicks has previously addressed the abortion after Henley shared that Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 song “Sara” was about what would’ve been their child. “Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara,” she told Billboard magazine in 2014.
“But there was another woman in my life nam.