Stevie Nicks wishes she could say goodbye to Christine McVie.
The Fleetwood Mac singer recently spoke with Mojo and opened up about the late keyboardist’s last day after she had a stroke:
“We got a call, and I was going to rent a plane and go see her, but her family said, ‘Don’t come, because she may not be here tomorrow.’ And the next day, she passed away.”
Nicks shared what she would want to do if she could see McVie:
“I wanted to go there and sit on her bed and sing to her – which definitely would have made her pass away faster. But I needed to be with her. And I didn’t get to do that. So that was very hard for me. I didn’t get to say goodbye.”
Coping With McVie’s Death Has Been Hard For Stevie
McVie died of a stroke in the hospital on November 30, 2022, at the age of 79. She was also battling metastatic cancer of unknown origin. In a May 2023 concert, Stevie talked about her close friendship with Christine. She thanked Taylor Swift for a song that helped her express her sadness after McVie’s death. Nicks kept honoring McVie’s memory in her other gigs. Here is what she said during her show at the State Farm Arena:
“Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing this thing for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid.’ That is the sadness of how I feel. As long as Chris was, even on the other side of the world, we didn’t have to talk on the phone. We really weren’t phone buddies. Then we would go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we would walk in, and it would be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’”
The vocalist continued:
“It was like never a minute had passed, never an argument in our entire 47 years. So, when it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids, we always were. And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. So, you help me to do that. Thank you.”
In her recent Mojo interview, Nicks also said Fleetwood Mac is done after McVie’s passing. The rocker believes the band can’t continue without McVie. Although the band managed without her from 1998 to 2014, it put more pressure on Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Despite making peace with Buckingham in 2023, Nicks says there won’t be a final tour due to Buckingham’s health problems.