How Tango was born

[Travisevian]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Both: the first rehab was involuntary, the second rehab was voluntary.

As far as I know, Stevie has never implied that her first time to rehab was involuntary. I don't believe rehabilitation works that way. I've read that there was some kind of an intervention but Stevie made the choice and paid the bill.

There appears to be some confusion about the actual time she went to Betty Ford. Stevie repeatedly states it was 1985, whereas, others say it was November of 1986 and it was mentioned on Behind The Music(and also in Mick's book) that she received treatment in spring of 1987. For some reason, it has also been said that she was treated for alcohol-related problems, which she has denied. There is also speculation that she went to a rehabilitation facility in the 1980's more than once.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Travisevian

There appears to be some confusion about the actual time she went to Betty Ford. Stevie repeatedly states it was 1985, whereas, others say it was November of 1986 and it was mentioned on Behind The Music(and also in Mick's book) that she received treatment in spring of 1987. .

What I do remember is the VH1 "Making of Rumours" video, she says (in the Gold Dust Woman chapter) "after all these years since I haven't done cocaine since 1986 I can talk about it now..."

So definitely the cocaine rehab must be in 1986, but Mick talks about alcohol rehab in 1987:

Complicating matters slightly in the spring of 1987 was Stevie's admission to the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs to get her life under control. This was done through an "intervention" by friends, members of her family, and the management company. Stevie spent twenty-eight days in a successful treatment for alcohol problems, but she didn't like being coerced into entering this facility, and Frontline was fired shortly thereafter. (Later she told me that the treatment made her change her way of thinking, and was worth it.)

Anyway what we are now sure is that she is clean and sober now.