# The relationship Stevie Nicks was never upset about, and the one she chose to forgive

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-relationship-stevie-nicks-was-never-upset-about-and-the-one-she-chose-to-forgive/
- Published: 2026-11-05T18:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T18:53:38+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/relationship-stevie-nicks-knew-doomed-to-fail/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Nicks said her romance with Mick Fleetwood seemed destined to fail.
- Her close friend Sara Recor also pursued Fleetwood.
- Nicks forgave Recor after three months and missed their friendship.

## Summary

Stevie Nicks has said she believed her romance with Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood was doomed because her close friend Sara Recor also fell in love with him and pursued a relationship with him. Nicks stopped speaking to both of them, but later forgave Recor, saying she missed her friend almost more than she missed Fleetwood.

The article places the episode amid Fleetwood Mac’s turbulent personal relationships, which caused tension but did not immediately break up the band. Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined as a couple in 1974; their relationship ended within four years and informed the 1977 album *Rumours*. Nicks and Fleetwood’s affair lasted about two years, and she wrote about the situation on 1979’s *Tusk*.

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