Stevie Nicks Says ‘Weird’ Medical Emergency Forced Her to Cancel Shows

Stevie Nicks poses in the press room during the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center in New York City on March 29, 2019. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Stevie Nicks, an American singer best known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac, has offered more details on her recent health scare and sudden postponement of two concerts earlier this month.

The 76-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee told the audience at a rescheduled show in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 24 that she was hospitalized for a “weird infection.”

Ms. Nicks’s show was originally scheduled for July 6, but Glasgow’s venue OVO Hydro canceled the gig just a few hours before the singer was set to go on stage explaining she needed “a minor surgical procedure” on her leg.

“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 wrote in a post on X at the time.

At her rescheduled show on July 24, however, Ms. Nicks revealed that it was actually an infection that required emergency treatment. It is not known what exact kind of infection the singer suffered from.

“When I got here, I was just really so excited to be in Glasgow. And then I don’t know what happened, I just got this weird infection, and it just went crazy,” she said.

“And I’m staying at this fabulous castle ... we get here days early because we want to be here for a few days before [the show] 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 the emergency.’ And she looked at me, and I said, ‘I’m not kidding! I think we need to go to the hospital.’”

Ms. Nicks went on to reveal that her butler, named Simian, ended up driving her to the hospital.

“This wonderful man ... throws us in his BMW Sedan, which was so great, and off we sped through the night to a hospital,” she said.

The singer said she was hospitalized for two days before she returned to the castle and ultimately decided to cancel her performances in Glasgow and Manchester.

“I’ve been fighting this for this whole thing. This whole tour I’ve been fighting what started here. And I would be damned if I wasn’t coming back here,” she told a cheering crowd at the rescheduled Glasgow event.

Ms. Nicks, whose real name is Stephanie Lynn Nicks, played the rescheduled Manchester show on July 16.

The Phoenix-born singer-songwriter joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping them become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with more than 120 million records sold.

She is also the first woman to be twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame—first as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and then as a solo artist in 2019.

From NTD News