
What this man said was: “In order to keep you off cocaine we should put you on the drug that we’re using a lot these days called Klonopin.” Stupidly, I said, “All right.” And the next eight years of my life were destroyed. You should go to a psychiatrist.” Finally, I said, “All right!” and went. But everyone said, “We’re sure you’re going to start using again. I was feeling buoyant and saved and fantastic. It was in the mid-1980s, and I had just gotten out of Betty Ford. “The biggest mistake I ever made was giving in to my friends and going to see a psychiatrist. ‘So I will go to my grave angry at that man for that, because he took eight years of the prime of my life away.’ Read the rest of the article here:Īlso read My Favorite Mistake by Stevie Nicks, If you own a Philips Hue light system, or you’re just interested in programmable lights (they’re very cool), you’ll definitely want to check out Ambify. Since we shipped Airfoil Remote, Kai’s been hard at work on his own very cool app called Ambify. ‘But during those eight years, that was late thirties to 45, who knows what might have happened during those eight years? I might have met someone, I might have even had a baby. Airfoil Remote was built off of an app called Reemote for Airfoil, made by our friend Kai Aras. Speaking on the Radio 4 Woman’s Hour programme, she said: ‘I say to people I’ve chosen not to have a boyfriend, I’ve chosen not to have kids, I’ve chosen to be an artist and follow my muse and all that and blah blah blah. The singer, who once had a brief relationship with band mate Mick Fleetwood, said she blames the doctor for her lack of a family. The star has been married once – to her best friend’s widower Kim Anderson after his wife, Robin, died from Leukaemia, however the couple split after eight months and she has not re-married. ‘He just wanted to put me on something that would bring me into his office whenever I was in town, once a week for an hour, so he could get all the scoop on what was going on in the rock and roll world.’ She said: ‘When I came out of Betty Ford I was in great shape and then I went to see the psychiatrist that everybody was seeing at that point and I think he was just a groupie.

Miss Nicks became addicted to cocaine for 10 years but following her treatment at the Betty Ford clinic in America in the 1980s she then started seeing a psychiatrist. The 65-year-old star accused her psychiatrist of being a gossip-hungry groupie who fed her high doses of valium to keep her coming back. She was as famous for her drugs battle and rock and roll lifestyle as for her distinctive voice during the height of her fame with Fleetwood Mac.Īnd as Stevie Nicks returns on tour with the band, she reveals that she holds a 20-year grudge against the psychiatrist she claims prevented her from marrying and having children when he treated her for over eight years in her thirties.


Stevie Nicks opens up about the psychiatrist she blames for ruining her chances of having a family
