Stevie Nicks Says 'Stupid' Doctor 'Ruined My Life for Eight Years'

By PopEater Staff Posted May 10th 2011 10:15AM

Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks regrets taking medication to help her drug addiction because it "ruined" a large chunk of her life.

The singer, 62, who battled substance abuse in the 1980s, entered the Betty Ford Clinic in 1986 to overcome an addiction to cocaine. That same year a psychiatrist prescribed her Klonopin which is usually for seizures and panic disorders. The results were almost fatal.

"That ruined my life for eight years," she told FOX411's Pop Tarts. "That was just a stupid doctor making a groupie mistake and just wanting me to come in there, tell him about all my music friends and young Hollywood, and that nearly ruined my life and nearly killed me."

Nicks laments the loss of eight years of her life.

"God knows, maybe I would have met someone, maybe I would have had a baby," she said. "That was my prime eight years. That was a big mistake. Everything else was exactly how it should have been."

Nicks, who has a new album out called 'In Your Dreams' had a surprising dinner guest while she was recording her first studio album since 2001: Reese Witherspoon. The two met when Nicks sat next to Witherspoon's mother on a flight to Nashville -- "she's darling" -- and invited her and her husband to watch her record.

The actress, who won an Oscar for portraying a singer, June Carter Cash, even came up with a name for one of the tracks on Nicks' new album: 'Cheaper Than Free.'

Tags: Klonopin, Stevie Nicks

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Tuesday 10 May

By undrgrndgirl

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typical abuser...blame everyone else and take no responsibility for your own actions...

By AnnieP

Put on your Big Girl Panties, Stevie, and own up to YOUR mistakes. If you want kids, adopt, mentor, volunteer. Be responsible and move on because life sure does.

By Sue Harris

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Didn't I read that Stevie aborted a baby when she got pregnant by Don Henley?

By tripledawg

the way i read your statement is....because i was a drug addict,
(and that was someones elses fault), the dr.,i used in rehab caused me to not have children...
thought the first road to recovery was to admit to your self that the addiction is your fault.........
what crap.......

By Stacy

You people do realize that these messages never do get to Stevie Nicks, right?

Sunday 15 May

By rob

LOL, it makes you wonder who's really on the drugs
or the people here are just plain stupid

By awill

Why, Klonipin took away her ability to read???

By dee

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I swear Stevie said music was her baby and that she didn't want to have children. Yes, cocaine was her decision but we layman always think Dr's know best, That is one hell of a drug and I wouldn't think that would be used to wean a person off cocaine????? Can't look back Stevie only forward:)

By Mo

Is She Serious?????? Acceptance Babe.....No one told you to take them.....Everyone always finds fault for their own problems!

By BILL

Still looking good at 62....wished she still lived in Finesterre...great job with Rod Stewart the other night

By diana

Sex,Drugs and Rock and Roll was famous before you even started. Own up and smarten up Stevie blaming others is soooo very cheap.

By gft

blamed the doctor????
Wasn't the doctor that got her addicted to cocaine.
Hey Stevie it was you that wasted those eight years plus
all the others you spent in a drugged blur.

UNLESS she's slupping around aol with nothing better to do like us :) LOL

By Marcie

Why do people stay on meds that make them more miserable than the affliction they are supposed to be curing? You have to look out for yourself. If you're not happy with the treatment plan of one doctor, find another doctor. It's exhausting and expensive and scary, especially if you have psych issues. But to let a doctor ruin 8 years of your life, unless it SAVED your life, is not a satisfactory situation.

By marcus

Why is she bringing this to light now? Oh that's right she
has a new album.

By Sunny

Stevie - it's good to see you doing well and back to making music and recording. Take care and stay happy and healthy!! With love and best wishes.

By Rockin

Snort another line and point the finger

By Joe America

Stevie Nix SUX!

By CAV44

It was the medication, not the cocaine, that ruined her life......Yeah Ok! "She might have met a guy" Pretty sure that probably happened numerous times.....Funny S**t!

By Jaeger

Sorry Stevie, I've always been a big fan of yours, but this sob story doesn't wash. "I might have had a baby" ?? You had a chance to give birth once but aborted it because the timing wasn't convenient to your career.

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