Lindsey Buckingham has revealed that he and former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks have rekindled their friendship after years of a complicated relationship marked by professional and personal turmoil.

The pair — who famously dated from 1972 to 1976, breaking up during a turbulent recording session for the chart-topping 1977 album Rumours — have repeatedly gone through major periods of silence and estrangement, most recently after Buckingham, 76, was fired from the band.

The singer and guitarist was dismissed from the “Go Your Own Way” group in 2018, allegedly after Nicks, 78, gave him an ultimatum due to creative tension over a planned tour. Buckingham sued Fleetwood Mac for millions, eventually settling in December 2018. Nicks later denied having anything to do with his firing.

The two virtually went no contact in the following years, save for briefly speaking at Fleetwood Mac singer and keyboardist Christine McVie’s funeral in 2022.

Now, Buckingham said, “Stevie and I are talking all the time.”

Speaking Thursday to E! News at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood event, the Grammy-winning artist teased that “Fleetwood Mac has been working on a documentary.”

“I think the process of making that has been a very circular healing process for all of us,” Buckingham said.

Nicks and Buckingham’s surprise reconciliation began sometime last year with the re-release of their 1973 collaborative album, Buckingham Nicks.

The re-release fueled speculation of an impending reunion, though the two have remained coy about future joint musical endeavors.

“Next year should be a pretty interesting year,” Buckingham cryptically told E! News, “because I think quite a few things will reveal themselves.”

Weeks after the 2025 release of the remastered version of Buckingham Nicks, Nicks appeared on the music podcast Song Exploder to discuss the concept of the album’s hit track “Frozen Love.”

The song is about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this relationship that seemed to be like a gift,” Nicks said.

“I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations — a modern day love affair, tragedies,” she added. “Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey.

“Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult, but at the same time, fantastic,” Nicks continued. “And what we were doing was so fantastic, that it was worth putting up with the trials and tribulations of a relationship that’s difficult.”