Fleetwood Mac Legend Stevie Nicks Reveals Recent Hospitalization

The iconic rocker has been on tour as a solo act in recent years.

Stevie Nicks faced a serious medical emergency that pulled her away from performing earlier in July. The 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac alum was forced to cancel a concert in Glasgow due to a leg injury requiring surgery, according to the New York Post.

During her rescheduled show on July 24, Nicks revealed the emergency was more severe than initially thought. “I don’t know what happened. I just got this weird infection, and it just went crazy,” Nicks told the crowd. “We get here days early because we want to be here for a few days, and I finally just looked at my assistant – it was like two in the morning – and I said, ‘I think we need to go to emergency.’ She looked at me, and I said, ‘I’m not kidding! I think we need to go to the hospital.'”

Nicks further explained that her butler quickly drove them to the hospital in his BMW Sedan. She spent two nights in the hospital before heading back to the castle where she was staying and subsequently canceling the Glasgow show.

“I’ve been fighting this for this whole thing,” Nicks told the audience. “This whole tour I’ve been fighting what started here. And I would be damned if I wasn’t coming back here.”

Nicks had to postpone her July 6 Glasgow show and her July 9 Manchester show due to the injury. She explained the change on social media at the time. “Due to a recent leg injury requiring a minor surgical procedure that will need a few days of recovery time, Stevie Nicks’ scheduled performances in Glasgow Saturday 6 July and Manchester Tuesday 9 July have been postponed,” OVO Hydro, the Glasgow venue, posted.

The Fleetwood Mac member went on to play the rescheduled Manchester show on July 16. She also held a performance at BST Hyde Park in London on July 12, which included a duet with Harry Styles on “Landslide.” The performance was dedicated to her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie.

“I asked Harry to do this,” Nicks explained at the show. “It’s always heavy to ask someone to come and sing the song with you when you’re singing about your best friend that died so suddenly and so sadly. What I want you to know is that Christine was Harry’s girl, she was my girl, she was your girl.”