So what's going on there? What's the real reason?
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Let's talk about Lindsey Buckingham.
Boy, this guy,
he's got quite the last couple of years,
hasn’t he?
He was kicked out of his band, Fleetwood Mac,
the band that he helped propel to stratospheric success,
then he had a horrible heart attack and
had to have a bypass, then the pandemic hit, and
now, he's got a brand new album out,
he's excited, he announced his brand new album and
the very next day, TMZ breaks the news,
that his wife of 21 years,
Kristen Messner, has filed for divorce.
So, he's got his new album,
he's getting ready to go on tour and
all this is happening.
Now, I understand that the couple
has three children, two of which are adults.
Meaning, they're over the age of 18, and they've
already graduated from high school.
So they're not going to be an issue at all.
Apparently, they have one child left at home,
who is 17, who may or may not be an issue
depending on what the situation is.
But, if the divorce goes on long enough, it probably
won't be an issue at all because this child
will already have aged out, and more than likely
when you're dealing with a seventeen-year-old,
there's really not much to have a conversation about
plus, I understand he's leaving for tour soon,
so, more than likely the whole custody issue,
is not going to be an issue at all.
But, what really happened there?
Well, it could be a number of things.
I remember when the whole Fleetwood Mac thing happened,
where he was kicked out of the band and
I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, I should say.
I should mention that this is why
I’m taking a particular interest in this,
because I've loved Stevie Nicks since
I was in high school and I love Fleetwood Mac.
Of course I've always followed the whole
Lindsey-Stevie thing, what's going on with them.
But anyway, I digress.
He was kicked out of the band,
I think it was 2018, and there was
a lot of speculation around why that was.
The band's official stance was that
he didn't want to go on tour, and they wanted to.
I don't know.
They did end up getting a couple of people to replace him.
I found it interesting that they needed two people
to replace him, but that's what they ended up doing.
But, his words were that the band manager,
Irving Azoff, who's managed legendary guys,
you know, the Eagles, and people like that,
he called Lindsey one night and said basically that
Stevie issued an ultimatum saying he goes or I go
and I guess the band picked her.
So, I guess it was because
they were at some event and
there was some kind of honoring of Stevie
and something around the song “Rhiannon” and
while she was giving her thank-you speech,
apparently, he smirked or something like that.
I guess he also had had like an outburst
before they went on stage or something.
Anyway, this ultimatum was issued and,
he's had his problems with that, and
sometimes these celebrities can be difficult,
there was a whole thing around that
with Brad Pitt as well, and
if you do want to know more about that,
you can definitely check out my video on
the real reason Brad and Angelina
ended up getting a divorce.
But anyway, apparently, he and his wife were at home,
he gets this call from Irving, he finds out that he's out,
but what I found more interesting though,
is that when that happened, his own wife,
goes on record in Rolling Stone magazine and
said “Lindsey was edgier when I married him and
the marriage and fatherhood has softened him”.
The quote was, still, she admits,
“he's always been a prickly guy, that's the truth”.
Maybe there was like a little bit of something there,
maybe she was saying something.
I'm thinking that,
even the beginnings were happening back then in 2018,
but then he had the heart attack and
she stayed with him through that, and
then there was the pandemic and
she stayed with him through that.
So, I'm thinking that might be the real reason,
he's just kind of a difficult guy,
I think that he's a brilliant guitarist,
I think he's an amazing songwriter,
but, the bottom line is, he just might
not be the easiest person to be around.
They could have waited till
their kids were old enough, as well.
She might have said,
let me just wait until the kids are old enough and
I don't have to deal with custody.
Maybe it was covid.
A lot of people ended up getting a divorce
after covid, because they had to
spend so much time together.
There's a lot of covid divorces, because
there were people that
maybe the relationship wasn't great to begin with.
Then here they were all stuck at home, and
being together a 100% of the time, 24/7, and
it just caused an explosion.
So it could be that,
I think he was touring a lot before that,
but sometimes it's just time to move on, right?
I mean, sometimes it's just time to move on,
whether it's a romantic relationship
or any kind of relationship.
If you're in a relationship, that is not serving your soul,
it is time to move on down the road and
if you agree with that,
So, what happens from here with Lindsey and Kristin?
Well, who knows? but they probably have a prenup.
They more than likely will settle
behind closed doors, as most celebrities do.
They're not going to want this huge glare.
He's getting ready to go on tour,
so, more than likely, they can just get this done,
they don't really have to deal with kids,
if there was a prenup,
there might be some set amount of property settlement,
there might be some set amount of support that she might get,
who knows?
But, he's gonna sign that agreement more than likely, and
then hop on a jet, and be on tour
so they won't even have to run into each other
at school or on Target, or whatever.
Like normal people do, they'll just move on with their lives
so, that's more than likely the real reason,
that's more than likely what happened and,
what's going to happen.
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