TL;DR:
- Stevie Nicks was determined to befriend Tom Petty.
- Stevie Nicks offered to visit Tom Petty every day after his divorce, but he declined.
- Stevie Nicks was devastated by the death of Tom Petty.
Although rumors swirled about it Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty started dating after his divorce, she claims their relationship was platonic. she were close friends, though, and she wanted to help him as he found his feet as a newly single. Nicks offered to stop by his new home every day so they could write together. However, when she showed up with the necessary supplies, Petty was horrified.
Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks were close friends
When Nicks first met Petty she was a huge fan of his music and he wasn’t sure what to think of her. He admitted he wasn’t very welcoming at first, so Nicks turned to Petty’s wife for help.
“Stevie worked on Jane,” Petty said, according to the book Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis.
As Nicks Petty’s wife, Jane Benyo, became closer, the two women began dating Plan ways to build a friendship between the musicians.
“Jane and I found out long before Tom knew we were plotting. And we made plans,” Nicks said, according to the book Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters. “I knew we would be a good match — I’m not affiliated with the Heartbreakers or anything: I’m just a friend.”
Their plan worked, and Nicks formed a friendship with Petty that would last for decades.
She offered to visit him every day after his divorce
In 1996, Petty and Benyo divorced after more than 20 years of marriage. After that, Petty moved into what he described it as a hut in the Pacific Palisades. Nicks was concerned about his behavior and thought it might be helpful for them to write songs together.
“I said, ‘Let’s just write some songs. I don’t write songs with anyone, and neither do you. Let’s write some,’” Nicks explained. “He said, ‘Well, okay. Perhaps.'”
She gathered some supplies and made plans to write with him for long days.
“I went home and I thought, I’ll go there every day until 6 a.m. and we’ll write,” she said. “The next day I arrive with my grocery bags, Hershey’s chocolate syrup, instant coffee and the kind of milk I like. He’s looking at me like I’m crazy.”
Petty was appalled that Nicks would come to his house with so many supplies.
“I’m like, ‘I’ll be here, so I need my supplies,'” she explained. “He says, ‘Your supplies?’ I say, ‘Supplies! Like camping.” I’ll never forget the look on his face. So I said, ‘Okay, so we’re not going to write songs together. But I will come visit you and keep in touch.’”
Stevie Nicks said she will never fully recover from Tom Petty’s death
When Petty died in 2017, Nicks was heartbroken. She said she was struggling to recover from the loss.
“Losing Tom Petty almost broke my heart,” she said per HuffPost. “Not only was he a good man to go down the river with, as Johnny Cash said, he was a great father and a great friend. He was one of my best friends. My heart will never get over it.”
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https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/tom-petty-rejected-offer-stevie-nicks-divorce-looking-like-crazy.html/ “He looks at me like I’m crazy”