Stevie Nicks' Addiction - Entertainment Tonight 2001

[@melaniejackson5166]

Still a rock star at 70 today that’s amazing

[@FishermanSculley]

“Are you going to be a rock star at 63?” Let me tell ya, Stevie’s turning 73 in a couple of weeks, and she’s still one.

[@asland52]

I appreciate her honesty and applaud her for getting the help she needed. The first step is admitting you have a problem, the second is doing something about.

[@Servodude1]

"Music inspires people and inspired people don't stay down." - Stephanie Lyn Nicks.

[@futurepopstar121]

i just love her... Over the years she partied so hard, and took alot of drugs, yet her skin still looks so AMAZING!!!

[@lynnnickstricks]

As a rehabilitated non relapse heroine addict who’s gone through prescribed medication similar to Stevie’s back in 1993 I totally get what Stevie talks about and why she educates anyone who is willing to listen.

[@StevieCherGagaArt]

SHe is my idol, i admire her sooooooooo much! she is a true inspiration.

[@robinkocher9673]

Glad to here you kicked that bad habit, and your alive!❤️ Glad bless you 🙏🏼 keep on singing and writing women❤️

[@lisabennage4025]

Love you Stevie ! Thanks for sharing!

[@SummerGraceMusic]

63 this year, and still a rock star!

[@katc2354]

I'll never stop loving you my queen take me with you I sang you all my life my queen you are my life rock on forever and ever you beautiful witch

[@98michellesanders]

Yes at 63 now - she still is a beautiful and successful rock star!!! I just saw her last month in Houston and she was incredible!! I think the doctor who put her on Klonopin was in it for the money only, knowing she had an addictive personality - I have been taking it for panic attacks and it does make you gain weight if you let it - when you get older you need to watch what you eat and exercise daily - Klonopin is very helpful to people like myself who have severe panic disorder.

[@icinglover95]

Heeey, she's 63 now and she's touring. In fact, I'm going to see her tomorrow!

[@nicolehenry1011]

not going back. I want more out of life than drugs can ever give me or will ever allow me to have and I'm not giving away anymore to a pointless habit

[@spaceneedle5142]

Any updates?

[@melaniejackson5166]

It’s crazy to know she’s 53 here she looks fantastic

[@carolegable-hawrylik1813]

Thank God she is clean and sober ! May her truth be a lesson to many and know that not every physician or psychiatrist has their patients best interest at heart. She should have NEVER been prescribed ANY type of psychotropic drug/pharmaceutical to be the main cure for her addiction ! While I have never had a SUD, I do have empathy for anyone who is seriously trying to seek professional assistance for their SUD/mental health issues. Finding a fantastic therapist/counselor who initially incorporates MI/CBT/other therapy first, then possibly some form of psychotropic medication second (short term) may be difficult, but they are out there ! - Jen Gable (Justeson)

[@lisapittner1919]

Sytevie Nick's I think that your video leather and lace is a very beautiful and poetic. You look so beautiful in the video. The Cape that you are wearing is shiny and very arty looking. I think that you are perfect in every shape and form. Hugs and kisses to you and your beautiful self.

[@sweetmountainbaby]

Hi I know she was in Betty Ford for klonipine but I’m two years forced off basically CT 😡 now I’m disabled can’t physically sit or lay down or shower due to excruciating severe cruel unbearable pain and never any silence because of tinnitus and fear I’ll never heal or sit or lay down ever again 😭😥😳😩😔

[@handsomedevil98]

Mark of a true Rock star to me anyway! drugs comes with the pakage

[@jillcole9196]

My DR.had me on benzos 8yrs.and it caused me to gain weight and a lot of depression. I don"t recommend it to nobody.

[@mattmammone2338]

You obviously don't understand addiction or why people use medication for psychological disorders. What you feel may be a lot easier to cope with than others. Of course it is sad, drug use, but what is worse is the lives some lead haunted and tortured by psychic intensity as bad for human health to suffer from as one who is seriously drug addicted. Id be dead without the drugs Stevie used. They are for illness and I am not a sad person for seeking treatment and wanting to live a life of peace.

[@zivkomladenovski4360]

I know your post is 7 years old but I want to tell you something you don't know a damn thing if you were on benzos most likely by now you are in real hell............ and you understand the fact that you cannot do benzodiazepines and live they will destroy you they will take your soul away

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@zivkomladenovski4360 hope u are getting help somewhere for being a hard judge on somebody u dont know at all

[@marthaortiz387]

@@lastnamefirst4035 more being a jack ass bc he absolutely not in the best way to judge a person if you haven't walked their shoes so he should smell his own ass b4 smelling others but he don't which makes him a total jack ass

[@katc2354]

I'll love you no matter what you weigh I'll be faithful to you I'll wait for you I can wait rock on forever and ever you beautiful beautiful GOOD witch my queen take me with you

[@Pootie23]

A MILLION DOLLARS ON DOPE??!!??! WOW

[@mattmammone2338]

It depends on the individual, their genetic back round. I have taken it for 6 weeks,2 mg daily and had no horrific trouble stopping within 10 days of proper tapering. Stevie misused the highly potent benzo and ended up with a problem she, I am happy to see has dealt with like a pro. Seizure disorder with on and off migraines are why I used and still use it,and use it responsibly.

[@Gypsygirl9]

Good point. Some of these drugs are dangerous and have to be used as rx'd. Either she wss taking more than what the rx called for or..the dose was too high and she should have right away questioned that or got off it.

[@mattmammone2338]

@@Gypsygirl9 Indeed, Klonopin is so potent many doctors don't understand. For example, Valium. Comes in 2 mg 5 mg and 10 mg tablets and breaks down and metabolites re enter the bloodstream and can last for days. They MDs think the new drugs are safer. Well, my doc was one and was like Valium OMG I'm only giving you a 2mg a day script if you agree with me to change meds. I asked if I could add a third MG of Klonopin as needed for midnight awakening or emergencies. He was fine with that. I told him "you know if you gave me Valium the equivalent dose would be 20 mg for each mg of Klonopin." he was baffled and I explained it to him, 1 and 10 are relative to drug potency blah blah. And then I had to pay HIM, an Ivy league graduate who just got schooled on benzos and I'm a drag queen in SoHo NY... pfft I read too... AND can do my own makeup and help cover up the new drag kids pimples at the same time.

[@redletter2008]

@scottreno40 You also have to consider that this may not even include the drugs others gave to her. Drugs were everywhere, and Stevie being beautiful and famous, probably had stuff handed to her the second she entered a room. Mick Fleetwood said he was responsible for procuring drugs for FM (likely his roadies, etc. got them). I have a LOT of respect for Stevie. The detox from Klonopin was excruciating. That is a pain nobody wants, so head her warnings! Thank God she cleaned up.

[@lisapittner1919]

Stevie nicks sharing my self with you would be adream come true for me.i think aboutyoy day and

[@nicolehenry1011]

I stopped at 12:00. today's my first day.

[@sweetmountainbaby]

Nicole Henry how are you now ? What were your symptoms? I’m two years off a forced ct and terrified I’ll never get well again

[@berthamanley1854]

All the luck n prayers in the world to you dear

[@denaaryeh9503]

@@sweetmountainbaby hey how are you doing now?

[@1besieged]

Stevie should put her eggs in a vault and find a surrogate and have a bunch of kids, she can have a bunch of little Stevie girls /boys running around her house, she can get a sperm donor etc. i sure as hell would if i were her. As far as drug use, rx. etc, most all Americans are addicts. no big deal. Still love her and her singing no matter what. my thoughts opinions, freedom of speech USA

[@darlabrown6159]

Stevie might not have her own babies, but I have a beautiful mini golden doodle whose name is Stevie. My Stevie loves listening to Stevie Nick's. The only thing she doesn't like is being left at home while I go to every concert she has that is anywhere in my surrounding areas. My husband and I just love Stevie Nick's so much that we knew as soon as we got a dog her name would be Stevie.

[@SomewhereInTheMaidenverse]

1besieged - She's almost 70. She already has gone through menopause. She has no eggs to save. She had 4 abortions. She could have had kids.

[@WelshWidgetMan2O1O]

I know this is an old interview and I haven't followed her beyond this time frame but I'm glad she kicked the habit and got off the drugs. **** Sorry for the loooong post but this subject really pisses me off **** Having said that, if you take these types of prescription meds the way they're supposed to they're normally extremely effective but people always fuck it up by overdoing it and using it as just another method to get high. People who do this fuck it up for those of us who take our meds like we're supposed to. I have to take Oxycontin and it at least gives me some relief, but because of drug addicts I have to bring my medicines with me to my doctor every single month to prove my innocence, like I'm some criminal junkie whose abusing the medicine which *I'm* paying for to begin with. The scrutiny I go through even by my pharmacist is unbelievable, and two pharmacists outright refused to fill my prescription for this medicine and won't even give you the reason for being an asshole towards you . . . and all because some people abuse their meds. So the rest of us who take it the way we're supposed to get treated like dirtbag junkies and have to prove our innocence every month to the doctor. And now they wanna stop making this particular medicine because some people tend to abuse it . . . never-fucking-mind those of us who it actually HELPS and those who don't abuse it. No, lets stop making it in favor of those who fuck it up for everybody. People who pass judgement on those of us who have to take these meds don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Just because the medicine didn't work for you you think everybody's bodies react the same way to these meds. A lot of us are helped by these medicines but the key is taking them the way they are prescribed, and even then you still have be honest with your doctor and TALK to them about what it's doing to you in every regard but to just say that "nobody" should take these meds is extremely arrogant because it *DOES* help a LOT people in the world but only **IF** you take it as prescribed. I've got maybe a year or two to live as it is (if that long) so it really bugs the shit outta me that I and those like me get treated this way merely because some people don't use their meds the right way, so the rest of us have to suffer for their bullshit. It's pisses me off just typing this because when the time comes that the one and only medicine that helps me isn't available anymore I'll take myself out because I can't even begin to handle the pain that goes with my disease. All this because *SOME* people abuse their medicine so they sentence the rest of us to death in favor of people who actually have a choice in life. Whatever.

[@joecaine9856]

if you find yourself taking klonopin more than once a week, you'll get addicted.

[@Kuulei265]

The Doctors give you that to “help” you with the pain of awful withdrawals. So, you wind up going from one awful thing to another. Here I thought I just needed Xanax “for awhile,” and it is some NASTY stuff to come off of. WHO would have thought right? THEY (the Doctors) NEVER told me it was habit forming or that I would have “withdrawals” when I came off it. Horrible. NEVER again.

[@berthamanley1854]

Honey I was addicted to valium for over 30 years ....their like coming off heroine ...She's brave for climbing out Iif that rut

[@SethMacLeod95]

“Her only regret is never having any children?” Shocker.......

[@trishmagenta883]

She had 5 abortions

[@danielbelardino7662]

Not 5....but ..4!!!

[@123cillitbang]

Is there any video or did you hear her say that? The media pundit saying it at the end does not count

[@joecaine9856]

Klonopin is not the answer, if you don't know now believe me the answer is coming.

[@carmenvalenzuela5658]

I dont get it why even try the stuff knowing that its poison.

[@rudymontana4515]

Nobody over 50 is a rock star.

[@50JETHRO]

SAD!!!!

[@guthrie1181]

Her only regret? Not having any children. Let that sink in ladies.

[@123cillitbang]

Is she on video/recording saying that or is it just the media propaganda puppet saying it at the end?

[@creating90]

A rockstar on drugs? What's the big deal?

[@mandaJt]

The fact that she's a human being and it did a pretty good job of ruining her life.. at least while she was on it. It's easy to say "what's the big deal" when it's someone else, but when it's affecting you or somebody you care about, it is a very big deal.

[@mandaJt]

Nobody is asking you to care.

[@HoursaDay]

Sadly trashed her voice forever.

[@carriebay]

Her only regret was never having children. ... but does she regret aborting her and Don hendly's baby,??

[@ninastachel1866]

could use a benzo now i am a victim of domestic violence my sister is on the run from police I am a wreck never abused benzos before but damn i think i deserve to have a script now