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Originally posted by diamondsnake
I was looking at Burnish.net and I saw this photo. Click on the link....
http://burnish.net/disc/btmstage2.jpg
Is this really her? She looks so much better now even though she was younger then, during Behind the Mask...
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Here's Stevie Nicks "in her own words" speaking of those times:
Nicks says the last time she used cocaine on stage was during a concert at Red Rocks in 1986. It was a turning point for her. Afterwards, she went straight to the Betty Ford Clinic. But in attempting to help herself, she encountered a problem far worse than her cocaine problem -- a new addiction to prescription drugs. Fresh out a rehab, a psychiatrist put Stevie on a tranquilizer called klonopin. Generally prescribed for seizures and panic attacks, experts say it should not be taken for more than nine weeks. Stevie says she took it for eight years, learning way too late that klonopin is highly addictive and can have side effects like depression and weight gain. "My woman's vanity could not deal with that at all. After being a rock 'n' roll sex symbol for all that time, and then all of a sudden to be 'little fat girl' was just so unacceptable to me. I could see the disappointment in people's faces when they'd see me walk in." It took 47 days for the singer to detox from the prescription drug, "...and it was horrible," she says. "My hair turned gray. My skin molted. I couldn't sleep, I was in so much pain. Legs aching, muscle cramps.... The rock star in me wanted to get in a limousine and go to Cedar's Sinai and say, 'Give me some demerol because I am in pain.' And the other side of me said, 'You will fight out this 47 days.'"