A heartbreaking loss. Melissa Etheridge and ex Julie Cypher’s son, Beckett, has died on the age of 21.
The singer’s workforce introduced the information on Wednesday, Could 13, through Twitter: “We’re unhappy to tell you that Melissa’s son Beckett handed away and there is not going to be a Live shows From Residence present as we speak. – #TeamME.”
Beckett’s reason for dying has not been made public.
Melissa Etheridge with son Beckett in Los Angeles on September 27, 2011. Peter Brooker/Shutterstock
Etheridge, 58, and Cypher, 55, known as it quits in 2000 after 10 years collectively. They welcomed Beckett in 1998. The exes additionally share grownup daughter Bailey. The “Come To My Window” songstress, who revealed in 2000 that musician David Crosby is the organic father of their two children, has been open about her parenting journey previously.
“[Julie was adopted and] spent her early twenties searching for her actual dad and mom, so she had that form of problem in her life,” Etheridge advised Mother and father.com. “She needed her children to know who their father was, however the father didn’t have any parental duties in any respect. It was simply to know the place they got here from. If you wish to know, that is who it’s. That was vital to her.”
Etheridge turned a mother or father once more in 2005 with Tammy Lynn Michaels. The twosome, who cut up in 2010 after seven years of marriage, share twins Miller Steven and Johnnie Rose. They welcomed their children in 2006 through an nameless sperm donor.
“My subsequent accomplice was not adopted and she or he didn’t need anybody else to return into that parenting scenario,” Etheridge advised Mother and father.com.
Years after Etheridge revealed she used Crosby as her unique sperm donor, she admitted that they virtually requested Brad Pitt to be their donor.
“He was such a superb good friend of mine. And we did contemplate it,” the rocker mentioned on Australia’s Studio 10 speak present in 2016. “And but, I regarded and I noticed how badly he needed kids and I believed, ‘I don’t need to share this with somebody who actually, badly desires kids as a result of my kids don’t want one other mother or father — they’ve two.’”
She added on the time that Crobsy was “good” as a result of he already had his circle of relatives.
“It’s one of many explanation why David Crosby and his spouse are so good — as a result of they [already] had kids. They had been trying to do that as a present,” she mentioned. “In fact, my youngsters now are like, ‘I might have had Brad Pitt [as my dad]! My son mentioned, ‘I might’ve been amazingly good-looking.’”