The Wild Heart - new article

[David]

Originally Posted by danax6

Definitely an intervention.

The Pop Eye section (usually compiled by Pat Goldstein) in the Times Calendar mentioned a Stevie Nicks stay at Betty Ford in the early spring of 1986 -- like after the Australia trip with Dylan (which Americans didn't really know about at the time) but before getting her own solo tour under way. I think there were two stays: that one & again after her solo tour, maybe into the new year '87 before Fleetwood Mac press started. As to why there were two, I can't say. Maybe the first one didn't quite ... take ...? (An interesting comment she once made is that she couldn't undertake the arduous process of quitting coke before the major responsibility of a tour, which leads me to consider the possibility that she wasn't willing to try at that point, despite the intervention. The other possibility is that the first time was a forced intervention by friends or record company & the second time was her own decision -- because she felt "ready.")

But I doubt she told him that. She loves to maintain her self-proclaimed survivor status.

I agree. When you read all the discussions of it she makes in print over the past ten or fifteen years, she always speaks of it as having checked herself in.

I think he was just saying that she did so much drugs, the most logical next step was to go to rehab. It doesn't literally say she was forced by others, just forced by the situation.

I dunno, Vaness. I'm a native speaker of American English & I wouldn't say "She took enough drugs to be forced into rehab" unless I meant that someone else forced her (i.e., intervened). If I did, I would use it reflexively: "She forced herself ..." But still odd wording if referring merely to a personal choice. I used to copy edit for print papers, & if my writer turned in this word choice, I'd flag it for clarification.

So I'm essentially still left wondering whether Stevie told this particular writer that there was an intervention. Odd, odd, odd.