Melissa Etheridge Says She Received’t Really feel ‘Disgrace’ Over Son’s Overdose – Hollywood Life

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Melissa Etheridge revealed how she is at present coping together with her son Beckett’s dying from an overdose on the age of 21 in 2020. On the opening of her off-Broadway present, My Window, on Oct. 13, the legendary musician stated she has been in a position to come to a spot the place refuses to really feel “guilt” or “disgrace” about Beckett’s passing and his wrestle with opioid abuse dysfunction by “having a deep religious perception that all of us make our personal selections,” per Web page Six.

“We will all select day by day, whether or not it’s love or concern, and my son made his selections and I did the very best I might as a mother and I’m not going to take any guilt or disgrace,” Melissa defined. “He wouldn’t need me to cease and break my life due to his selections.”

The brand new outlook comes after the “Come to My Window” singer beforehand stated she was scuffling with guilt three months after Beckett’s dying. “There’ll all the time be that that place in my coronary heart and my soul that that has a bit of little bit of, ‘Oh, what might what might I’ve accomplished? And is it my fault he ended this fashion?’ and all that type of factor,” she instructed Rolling Stone in August 2020. “And it simply will get smaller and smaller, as a result of it doesn’t serve me anymore, and the place he’s now, he actually doesn’t need me to take that on.” she instructed the outlet, including, “So, you realize, if that may assist any dad and mom who could be torturing themselves with that … I imagine life is supposed to be lived with as a lot pleasure as we will.”

Melissa shared Beckett together with her ex Julie Cypher. The previous pair additionally share his older sister Bailey. Each Beckett and Bailey are the organic youngsters of Melissa’s shut good friend and well-known musician David Crosby. The siblings had been welcomed by way of synthetic insemination. Melissa can also be mom to 15-year-old twins, son Miller and daughter Johnnie, with ex Tammy Lynn Michaels. At present, Melissa is married to producer Linda Wallem, who she wed in 2014.