According to the Classic Albums: Rumours documentary, they lived in the same condo building on Sausalito harbor during the making of Rumours, while the boys in the band shared a house up in the hills. According to the girls, they would hide in each others condos when John and Lindsey would come to fight with them. They also said they became quite close on the road since they were the only women. We know Stevie has always been an Anglophile too... so I'm sure she looked up to Christine. They talked about there being times when all they had were each other, which I'm sure was true. Being a rock star can be an extremely lonely thing, especially if you're a woman in the 70s.
Christine took up for Stevie when Lindsey attacked her on stage in New Zealand during the Tusk tour. After the band left the stage, apparently Christine slapped Lindsey and threw her wine in his face.
They claim to have been close friends during the height of their fame... but I don't know that the friendship has lasted to this day. For all intensive purposes, it sounds like Chris has pretty much cut ties with all of her rock past. Interviews since about 2002 sounds like she just wants nothing to do with any of it anymore. I can't help but think too that Stevie and Christine's friendship was almost a necessity. Since they were the only women in the band, they pretty much had to stand up for each other (especially in the male centric world of the 70s and 80s). I think their friendship was a shrewd move for them to watch after each others interests as much as anything. They are just so very different, besides being the only women in one of rock's biggest bands (at the time), what could they have had in common?
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