Stevie Nicks has mirrored on her relationship with former boyfriend and Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.

The singer reveals the second she minimize ties with Buckingham, whom she’d beforehand dated from 1972 to ’76. The guitarist departed Fleetwood Mac in 2018, whereas Nicks continued with the band up till their dissolution in 2022, following keyboardist/singer Christine McVie’s dying that November.

“I believe that each one simply occurred the best way it ought to have,” Nicks tells Rolling Stone, discussing how she and Buckingham went their separate methods within the late 2010s. “It occurred one evening, not deliberate, at a MusiCares [benefit concert]. I didn’t even inform anyone it had occurred in my head till the entire ceremony was over.”

She continues: That’s when he wasn’t very good to anyone; he wasn’t very good to Harry Kinds. I may hear my mum saying, ‘Are you actually going to spend the subsequent 15 years of your life with this man?’ I may hear my very pragmatic father – and by the best way, my mum and pa appreciated Lindsey rather a lot – saying, ‘It’s time for you guys to break up.’ Between these two, I stated, ‘I’m finished.’”

Nicks provides that the one time she and Buckingham have exchanged phrases since 2018 was on the funeral of McVie. “All of us felt like she was there, as a result of it was actually intense,” the singer remembers. “The one time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes. I handled Lindsey for so long as I may. You possibly can not say that I didn’t give him greater than 300 million probabilities.”

Final 12 months, Nicks stated she may see “no cause” to proceed Fleetwood Mac after McVie died. The keyboardist had been with the band for 52 years by the point she handed. “We did exit on the highway and do a year-and-a-half tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell [in 2019 with McVie],” Nicks advised Vulture. “We had a very nice time and it was an enormous tour. That was there within the realm of risk.”

She went on: “However when Christine died, I felt like you may’t change her. You simply can’t. With out her, what’s it? You already know what I imply?”