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Stevie Nicks has been to hell and back and lived to write some more songs about it.

Along with being the lead singer for the legendary rock band “Fleetwood Mac” and a successful solo artist, the songstress has also had a lengthy battle with addiction, entering rehab once for cocaine and a second time for pills.

So now at age 62, with a new album drawn from her personal diaries being released this week, what is Nicks’ greatest regret?

“The only thing I would change is walking into that psychiatrists office who prescribed me Klonopin,” Nicks told FOX411’s Pop Tarts in an exclusive interview in her Pacific Palisades mansion. “That ruined my life for eight years.”

Klonopin is a tranquilizer generally used to treat seizures and panic disorder. Nicks said it was not for her.

“That was just a stupid doctor making a groupie mistake and just wanting me to come in there, tell him about all my music friends and young Hollywood and that nearly ruined my life and nearly killed me,” Nicks said. “That’s eight years that I could have. God knows, maybe I would have met someone, maybe I would have had a baby. That was my prime eight years. That was a big mistake. Everything else was exactly how it should have been.”

Nicks is looking back as she releases her first studio album since 2001. “In Your Dreams” is a collection of songs she said came directly from her years of journals.

“It is real, the experiences are real,” she said. “I’m not a storyteller, because I don’t make up stories. The stories are real.”