Did Stevie Nicks Really Marry Her Best Friend's Husband?
Stevie Nicks was part of the band Fleetwood Mac and skilled major luck. Her luck would grow even higher when she launched her debut solo album "Bella Donna" in 1981.
However, despite her skilled success, Nicks was struggling in her private life. During the time of the album's free up, Nicks came upon her best pal used to be diagnosed with leukemia. Her pal would later go away and Nicks was once in extreme pain.
It used to be in the middle of this pain that Nicks made a move that shocked many people. Out of all her past relationships, it is a story that still intrigues people to this present day.
Stevie's Best Friend Robin Snyder Anderson Was Diagnosed With Leukemia
In 1981, Nicks launched her debut solo album "Bella Donna." The album marked a brand new chapter in her musical journey and it was once an enormous luck.
While Nicks was once experiencing good fortune in her skilled existence, her private lifestyles would take a very dark turn. As the album used to be being released, she won some terrible news about her best friend, Robin Snyder Anderson.
"My very best friend Robin [Snyder Anderson] called me and told me she had terminal leukemia and that they thought that maybe she might last 3 months," Nicks revealed on an episode of VH1's Behind The Music. "So without a doubt, it was the absolute high and low of success. I never got to enjoy 'Bella Donna' at all because my friend was dying, something went out that day, something left."
She continued, "She just been in my life since I was 14. She was the one person that knew me for the person I really was and not for the famous Stevie, and it was good to have someone who knew the real you besides just your mom and dad."
In an interview with BAM, Nicks mentioned how her friend's illness averted her from playing the album's luck.
"I found out that Robin was dying on the same day it went No. 1," she said. "I never really thought about it until now, but that's what happened. That should've been a time when I was the most happy and felt the most self-confident and successful. But actually, I really felt the most helpless, because all the money in the world couldn't save this woman's life. It was a very sad, yet balancing, thing for me."
Anderson used to be pregnant with a son named Matthew whilst she used to be in remission.
"She died and they took the baby, and it was like he was 3 months premature, and it was horrible, it was such an upsetting situation," she stated, "everyone was just so devastated and there was this little premature baby, and I just went crazy."
Stevie Married Robin Snyder Anderson's Husband Kim After Her Death
In 1983, Nicks married Anderson's husband Kim Anderson shortly after her loss of life. Nicks later defined her reasoning for the wedding in an interview with US Magazine in 1990.
"I married Robin's husband [Kim Anderson] because . . . Robin was one of the few women who ever got leukemia and then got pregnant. And they had to take the baby at six and a half months, and then she died two days later."
"And when she died, I went crazy. I just went insane. And so did her husband. And we were the only two that could really understand the depth of the grief that we were going through. And I was determined to take care of that baby, so I said to Kim, 'I don't know, I guess we should just get married.' And so we got married three months after she died, and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."
During the marriage, Nicks felt Anderson's spirit when she would stroll into Matthew's room in the middle of the night.
"I had got used to going into in [to the nursery] and finding the cradle rocking without anyone being there and I always knew that it was Robin, but on this occasion it wasn't rocking, nor the next day either, and that was when I realized she had finally left," Nicks instructed Woman's Own. "Somehow I know she was telling me, 'You'd better get out of this right now. Kim will take good care of Matthew, but this is not what God meant for you, Stevie.'"
Nicks and Kim ultimately divorced 3 months later.
Years After The Divorce, Stevie Reunited With Her Stepson And Put Him Through College
After the divorce, Nicks moved to the beach and made an effort to transport ahead in her life.
"It was hard for me to come back from the fact that I knew I wouldn't see Matthew again for many years," Nicks mentioned. "And so I moved to the beach. I moved to the beach for spiritual solace, for sanctuary. And it helped. For me to go out and just sit on a blanket and take my tape recorder and a pad of paper and a pencil and just look at the ocean and write. And give her up, you know?"
In 1991, Nicks informed the Miami Herald about in the future reuniting with Matthew.
"One of these days, when he [Robin's son, Matthew] gets old enough, he's about 12 now, I will see him…and give him all of his mother's things that I have," she mentioned. "So I'll be able to give him back Robin ~ her laughter and her smiles ~ because I have the incredible definitive photographs and writings and pictures. And the experiences that she and I had that I can tell him about."
Nicks and Matthew would in the end reunite after 8 years. Nicks would later put him through college in Atlanta.
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