In an interview with Billboard, Nicks confirmed Henley’s previous admission that she’d become pregnant during their affair and that she’d chosen to terminate the pregnancy. “Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara,” she said, also confirming her song “Sara” was partially about the unborn baby.
Interestingly, Nicks also fell in love with another member of the Eagles, guitarist Joe Walsh. “My great, great love was Joe Walsh,” Nicks told The Telegraph, revealing their romance lasted from 1983 until 1986. “We were probably the perfect, complete, crazy pair. He was the one that I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for … A little bit. Not a lot.” she added. They broke up, she said, because they were both heavily addicted to drugs at the time, with Walsh ending things because he felt if they continued, one or both of them would end up dead. “We were a couple on the way to hell,” she recalled.
