by Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
December 8th 2018, 6:55:10 pm

• Lindsey Buckingham, 69, is speaking out in his first televised interview since he was fired from Fleetwood Mac in April 
• In October he filed a lawsuit against the band after his firing was announced
• He says long-time former girlfriend Stevie Nicks is behind his dismissal  
• ‘It appeared to me that she was looking for something to hang on me, in order to instigate some kind of coup’ he said on Nicks 
• She gave the band an ultimatum – keep her or Buckingham in the group 
• He revealed that he and the band have reached a settlement 
• Buckingham added he hasn’t spoken to the band in a year, with the exception of Christine McVie, with whom he made an album and toured with last year  

Fleetwood Mac singer Lindsey Buckingham has revealed he’s reached a settlement with his former bandmates, ending the heated lawsuit that sparked when he was kicked out of the group earlier this year.

Buckingham, 69, has spent 43 years with the acclaimed British-American band but was unceremoniously booted out in April, triggering his lawsuit filed in October that added to the group’s saga of internal conflict and drama.

In his first sit-down televised interview since the band’s split, he’s revealed that he and the band have settled the lawsuit and believes his former flame and band frontwoman Stevie Nicks, 70, was behind his firing.

‘We’ve all signed off on something. I’m happy enough with it,’ Buckingham said on CBS This Morning: Saturday.  

‘I’m not out there trying to twist the knife at all. I’m trying to look at this with some level of compassion, some level of wisdom,’ he added.

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