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[Ha, Donald Trump has lost count of how many times he's been bankrupt too]

Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood admits he’s “lost count” how many times he’s been bankrupt


http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...admits-4513051


Oct 26, 2014 17:56 By Claire Rutter Daily Mirror

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Mick Fleetwood has opened up about his bankruptcy issues ahead of the release of his autobiography, revealing there are times when people want to give him “20 million”.

The drummer has opened up in a new interview about his past financial problems and admits there were times when he buried his head in the sand.

“I’m like Donald Trump. I think he’s been bankrupt about seven times,” Fleetwood told The Sunday Telegraph’s Seven magazine.

"You pay off what debts you can. You do what you are told by your accountant.

"I really didn't have much to do with it. I carried on like nothing had happened."

Despite admitting that he’s “lost count” how many times he’s been declared bankrupt, Fleetwood says that there are occasions where people want to hand him millions.

Fleetwood said: "The past is a huge chunk of my life. I get (told) all the time, 'You don't have to be doing what you're doing'.

"Proportionately if you went down the pecking order of the band, I'd be last on the list, (but) people ask, 'Would you fancy putting another 20 million in your bank?' And you go, 'Oh yes, that's pretty good."

Fleetwood Mac, who reunited with Christine McVie earlier this year for their On With The Show tour, have recently expanded their 2015 dates.

Fleetwood, 67, opens up about his out-of-control spending, and his rollercoaster love life along with the three failed marriages, in his new autobiography, Play On.

Of the band, he says it’s made up of ex-partners and those who have lived together so their music is “incredibly emotively driven”.

"It's real. We don't always get it right, but we work at it,” he said.