Stevie Nicks, 76, needs regular eye injections to fix debilitating condition

Stevie Nicks has revealed she’s getting injections successful her oculus each mates of months aft an contented with her vision.

The 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac fable has been diagnosed with bedewed macular degeneration, which is described by the NHS arsenic a information ‘that affects the mediate portion of your vision’.

‘I got diagnosed with this happening a twelvemonth and a fractional agone called bedewed macular degeneration, and it is not a bully thing,’ she said, revealing however the information has impacted her sight.

She explained: ‘I was seeing each these colors, large things of purple. I was having, like, acerb trips. And I’m going, “I’m not taking immoderate acid, truthful I don’t recognize what this is.”‘

As a effect of the condition, Stevie present needs regular injections to assistance support the contented nether control.

‘Now, each six, seven, eight, 9 weeks, I person to person a changeable successful each 1 of my eyes. That’s going to beryllium for the remainder of my life,’ she told Rolling Stone.

Stevie besides opened up astir getting older successful the interview, insisting she expects to lone unrecorded ‘another 15 years’.

Discussing her Covid fears, she said: ‘I mean, I’m old, truthful I’ll lone beryllium astir for different 15 years. But you guys person different 30 oregon 40 years, truthful you should deliberation astir it.’

The Dreams hitmaker – who insisted she is ‘not acrophobic of dying’ – joked she’ll really ‘probably unrecorded to beryllium hatefully 95 years old’, but insisted she has nary involvement successful reaching that age.

‘I mean, I’ll person an electrical scooter, and I volition beryllium raging and I volition support dancing. But I’m not looking guardant to that, truly — I deliberation that’s excessively old,’ she said. ‘My ma died astatine 84, and my dada died astatine astir 80, but I’m a younger idiosyncratic astatine 76 than they were astatine 76. So I figured 88, 89.’

Over the summer, Stevie was forced to postpone dates connected her UK circuit after suffering a limb wounded which required a ‘minor surgical procedure’.

During a rescheduled gig successful Glasgow connected July 24, she opened up astir the scary situation.

‘I don’t cognize what happened. I conscionable got this weird infection, and it conscionable went crazy,’ she told fans astatine the time. ‘I yet conscionable looked astatine my adjunct – it was similar 2 successful the greeting – and I said, “I deliberation we request to spell to emergency.”

‘She looked astatine maine and I said, “I’m not kidding! I deliberation we request to spell to the hospital.”‘

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