Stevie Nicks says infection prompted her to postpone UK shows

Weeks after an emergency hospitalization forced Stevie Nicks to postpone two stops on her UK TourShe played the final show of her two-year run on Wednesday in Glasgow.

At the time of the postponement, Glasgow’s OVO Hydro arena explained that Nicks had changed the date because of a “leg injury that required a minor surgical procedure.” But the Fleetwood Mac alum shared additional details about her “crazy” medical emergency on Wednesday.

“I don’t know what happened. I just got a weird infection and went crazy,” Nicks said to the crowd in Scotland. The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee added that she arrived in Glasgow several days before the show which was originally scheduled for July 6.

One night, she said, “I finally looked at my assistant — it was like 2 a.m. — and said, ‘I think we need to go to the emergency room.’”

The “Edge of Seventeen” singer spent two days in the hospital before returning to the castle where she was staying, and decided to cancel her concert just hours before the show. She also postponed a show in Manchester, England, two weeks to July 16.

“Throughout this tour, I’ve been fighting what started here,” she told the Glasgow crowd. “And I’d be damned if I didn’t come back here.”

At her July 12 show in London, Nicks was joined onstage by Harry Styles. The two accomplished a moving duet of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” as a tribute to Nicks’ late bandmate Christine McVie who died in 2022 after an ischemic stroke.

A year after McVie’s death, Nicks said Vulture that the British singer “was like my soulmate” and that Fleetwood Mac would likely not return in her absence.

“I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is (Fleetwood Mac)?” she said.