The Shady Truth About Stevie Nicks’ Short Marriage To Kim Anderson

Stevie Nicks once told The Los Angeles Times that her father said something haunting about how her career dominated everything else in her life, including her relationships. “No man would be happy being Mr. Stevie Nicks for very long,” Jess Nicks once told his daughter. Those words turned out to be true, although the unhappiness was not totally due to her career.

In 1983, Steve Nicks secretly married Kim Anderson, who was the widower of her late best friend Robin Snyder. The marriage came three months following Robin’s death from leukemia just after she gave birth to a baby boy, Matthew, per The Sun. Nicks, who had been named the baby’s godmother, quickly realized the marriage was a “terrible, terrible mistake,” according to Vulture. “We didn’t get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything,” Nicks once said. “That wasn’t really a marriage … We did it to take care of her son. And, three weeks later, we realized that wasn’t going to work.”