Survivors

[Villavic]

Money, but just because they finally decided to use it right. You must realize that cocaine is expensive in the US (you wouldn't believe how cheap is in Peru), so money could be also the reason they were that addicted.

And they were lucky. Mick and Stevie could have died anytime during the 80s. They just realized (Stevie first) they were killing themselves, and it wasn't worth it.

It wasn't easy. I don't know how or when Lindsey or Chris stopped consuming cocaine, but Mick and Stevie's addictions were better known (seemed to be stronger). (And Stevie's klonopin addiction too). Mick tells in his book, about Stevie:

I went on part of her long 1986 tour, playing percussion in a hot band that included Waddy Wachtel on guitar, and I could see that Stevie was running herself right into the ground. She was drinking and doing a lot of cocaine. Every night I'd watch her launch into one of her dancing spins on stage, and each night the spins got more and more dizzy until I was afraid she was going to fall off the stage during a show. "Stevie," I said, "you're going to hurt yourself. You've got to work on getting away from being so high while you're onstage."

She would cry. "Oh Mick, I know it! I don't wanna be like this. I don't wanna need this stuff so much. I'm gonna do something after the tour's over." I knew what Stevie meant. You can't go cold turkey on a major tour after years of partying and having a good time. But now the party was over. It had become an addiction, a way of life. Later, while Fleetwood Mac was laboring in the studio, Stevie and her band went to Australia, where her drinking worsened and she fell off the stage twice. I was afraid she would injure herself, or worse.

Did they use drugs? Yes. But so was everyone else at the time. Was everybody falling off the stage during a show? Twice? I don't think so. Stevie's problem was really serious. She was lucky at the end. So was Mick. He tells in his "Two sticks and a drum" dvd about his heavy addiction. His daughters also talk about it. On those days that was a sad family I'm sure.