Mick Fleetwood Wants Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham to Heal From Old Rift

Mick Fleetwood said he wants to see Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham reconcile their old rift.

In an interview with MOJO, the Fleetwood Mac drummer opened up about his thoughts on his two former bandmates.

"It's no secret, it's no title-tattle that there is a brick wall there emotionally," Fleetwood said of the former couple. "Stevie's able to speak clearly about how she feels and doesn't feel, as does Lindsey. But I'll say, personally, I would love to see a healing between them - and that doesn't have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily."

Fleetwood's comments came on the heels of Nicks' recent interview with the same magazine surfaced. Talking about a potential Fleetwood Mac reunion, the singer brushed off any possibility of them reuniting anytime soon.

"Without Christine, no can do," Nicks confirmed. "There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn't work." McVie died in November 2022 because of a stroke, with a secondary cause of death listed as cancer, as she was diagnosed with "metastatic malignancy of unknown primary origin."

Regarding her strained relationship with Buckingham, Nicks positively responded when asked about possibly working with her ex-boyfriend again.

"Even if I thought I could work with Lindsey again, he's had some health problems," Nicks said about Buckingham's 2019 hospitalization for his open-heart surgery. "It's not for me to say, but I'm not sure if Lindsey could do the kind of touring that Fleetwood Mac does, where you go out for a year and half. It's so demanding."

Buckingham was infamously fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018 after a disagreement over the band's upcoming tour. Pitchfork reported that Buckingham's firing was only disclosed to him by their manager and not by the band.

"Stevie never wants to be on a stage with you again," Buckingham remembered being told. Later on, Nicks slammed Buckingham's revelations.

"It's unfortunate that Lindsey has chosen to tell a revisionist history of what transpired in 2018 with Fleetwood Mac," Nicks told Rolling Stone at the time. "His version of events is factually inaccurate."

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Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac