1986 Christine McVie interview

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I don't know if my perception is affected by everything I read about her mood in 1997, but I saw her more enthusiastic in the 1987 concert videos that in those of 1997. And I have always thought that her fear of flying was not the most important reason to leave the band that year.

Yeah, it wasn't really, although she didn't care for flying then, it wasn't a full-on phobia type thing until around/after she did In the Meantime, when she was kind of entering her agoraphobic phase. she used the flying as an excuse to avoid talking about other personal issues in her life then.

--Lis