Lindsey Buckingham gives update on feud with ex Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks have an update on their infamous, long-running feud.Buckingham, 76, opened up about how he mended his relationship with his bandmate, whom he dated for four years during their rise to fame in the 70s.The pair were previously in a romantic relationship from 1972 until 1976, and when they broke up, the bandmates were entangled in a brutal feud for 25 years.Since then, however, Buckingham and Nicks, 78, have ‘healed and worked out’ their past conflicts.’Stevie and I are talking all the time now,’ he told E! News at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood event on Thursday. ‘And so it’s really … that’s appropriate to our history.’This comes four months after he emerged for the first time since he was attacked in public by a stalker in Los Angeles.  Lindsey Buckingham shared an update about his relationship with former bandmate and ex-girlfriend Stevie Nicks after their decades-long feud; pictured in January 2018 At a Hollywood event this week, the musician said he and his ex have ‘healed’ and are ‘talking all the time now’Buckingham and Nicks have been collaborating again and working together as part of the band for Apple TV’s upcoming documentary, Fleetwood Mac: Rumours and Revelations. Buckingham said that the documentary has been helping himself and Nicks to mend their relationship with each other as well as with their bandmates.’I think the process of making that has been a very circular, healing process for all of us,’ he said. ‘Because we had left things in 2019, maybe as far as I was concerned, not in a very good place for all the wrong reasons.’  He added: ‘No one was happy about it, and all of that has been healed and worked out.’ Their past feud and romantic breakup is infamous in rock and roll history.The pair met in the 1960s as high school classmates and later started dating and performing together as the duo Buckingham Nicks in the early ’70s. Buckingham and Nicks went on to join Fleetwood Mac and, as part of the band, released the hit album Rumors alongside bandmates Mick Fleetwood, the singer and keyboardist Christine McVie, who passed away in 2022, and bassist John McVie. Buckingham, 76, and Nicks, 78, previously dated for four years during their rise to fame in the 70s; pictured in 1998 Buckingham and Nicks have been collaborating again and working together as part of the band for Apple TV’s upcoming documentary Fleetwood Mac: Rumours and Revelations; pictured in October 2014 Buckingham said that the documentary has been helping himself and Nicks to mend their relationship with each other as well as with their bandmates; pictured from left to right: Mick Fleetwood, the late Christine McVie, Nicks, Buckingham and John McVie in January 2018Buckingham first departed Fleetwood Mac in 1987; he later re-joined the band in 1997 but was dropped from the group in 2018. At the time, many reports suggested that Buckingham had disagreements with the rest of the band about touring and that Nicks was unable to work with him for unspecified reasons. Mick Fleetwood later addressed the firing and explained that there were unresolvable issues within the group. ‘Words like “fired” are ugly references as far as I’m concerned,’ he told Rolling Stone in April 2018. ‘Not to hedge around, but we arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall.’He added: ‘This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band. To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in terms of what we need to do as a band and go forward.’Years after their feud, Buckingham and Nicks mended their creative relationship again and re-released their Buckingham Nicks self-titled album. In the summer of 2025, Buckingham and Nicks sparked reunion rumors after hinting at the end of their decades-long feud for the first time. The pair shared related Instagram posts of the lyrics from their song Frozen Love, which they released under Buckingham Nicks in 1973.  The pair met in the 1960s as high school classmates and later started dating and performing together as the duo Buckingham Nicks in the early 70s Buckingham and Nicks went on to join Fleetwood Mac and, as part of the band, released the hit album Rumors alongside bandmates Mick Fleetwood, the late singer-songwriter and keyboardist Christine McVie and John McVie; pictured in January 1998 In the summer of 2025, Buckingham and Nicks sparked reunion rumors after hinting at the end of their decades-long feud for the first time; pictured in January 2018They also followed each other on Instagram, much to their fans’ excitement. As for the possibility of revisiting Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits, Buckingham said he has no plans of doing that any time soon. ‘The memories are all mixed up with just rising about the difficulties to follow our destiny,’ he explained. ‘I can’t say I go back and listen to those albums very much, I tend to want to move forward and not look back too much,’ he added. ‘Next year should be a pretty interesting year,’ he also said referring to the 2027 release of the documentary and hinting at future collaborations. ‘Because I think quite a few things will reveal themselves.’