Stevie Nicks wrote Rhiannon and Landslide while cleaning a producer’s house, and only joined Fleetwood Mac because her boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham demanded a package deal. This deep dive pushes past the bohemian mystique to the grounded, difficult reality of a fiercely resilient survivor who shaped the sound of a generation.

From the psychological battlefield of recording Rumours amid the band’s collapsing relationships to the devastating grief that eclipsed her solo triumph, the episode traces her highest highs meeting crushing lows. It follows her cocaine addiction, the prescribed Klonopin that cost her eight years, her brutal detox and comeback, and the quiet philanthropy that reveals who she really is.

• How childhood fairy tales and isolation built her mythic inner life
• The chance encounter that turned a flopped duo into Fleetwood Mac’s new sound
• The Silver Springs slight and the toxic dynamics behind Rumours
• Losing eight years to a prescribed sedative worse than her cocaine addiction
• Her 47-day detox, the vindicating comeback, and her work with wounded soldiers