Stevie Nicks: A Klonopin Addiction Consumed My 40s

Telegraph:

During the 10 or so years that she was addicted to cocaine - back in the days when Fleetwood Mac's album credits would include a 'thanks' to their dealer - Stevie Nicks estimates that she must have spent more than $1 million on the drug. 'At $100 a pop - that's a gram - and we were the ones who were buying it for everybody else; not only us, but all our friends.' Nicks thinks about this. 'Actually, I would say millions.'

It all came to end in 1986, when a plastic surgeon advised her that if she wanted her nose to remain on her face she should stop snorting coke immediately. (The legacy was a hole in her septum the size of a five cent piece.) So it was off to the Betty Ford Clinic in Palm Springs, which was like 'the army' - meetings from six in the morning until nine at night. 'Tammy Wynette was there, and one of James Taylor's backing singers.' After 30 days she had an epiphany, and that was it for the cocaine.

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Comments

[brooonie]

When I was 20, I thought by the time I was 40 I would know it all, have it all together. Of course, time showed me the folly of that idea. I'm almost 46 and am still working on it. We are always, all of us, searching for who we are, to our last breath. It's great to find out Stevie's doing well, and still on the hunt, as I am. At least by the time we get to 40, we have a better idea of what we cannot live without. I can't live without creating, neither can Stevie. It's more important than many things we were taught were essential. Keep on keepin' on, Stevie! You shall always rock!

[Jain]

Come on - stop whinning... Oh, they made me do so much coke and then they made me do tranks and then blah, blah, blah. Still totally self absorbed... Stevie - wake up - there's a world of need out there. Start helping out and get over yourself.

[speakyourmind]

Jain, get over yourself.