Melissa Etheridge Says She Won’t Feel ‘Shame’ Over Son’s Fatal Overdose At 21

Melissa Etheridge revealed however she is presently coping with her lad Beckett’s death from an overdose astatine the property of 21 successful 2020. At the opening of her off-Broadway show, My Window, connected Oct. 13, the legendary instrumentalist said she has been capable to travel to a spot wherever refuses to consciousness “guilt” oregon “shame” astir Beckett’s passing and his conflict with opioid maltreatment upset by “having a heavy spiritual content that we each marque our ain choices,” per Page Six.

Melissa Etheridge said she volition not consciousness ‘shame’ implicit her lad Beckett’s fatal overdose astatine the property of 21 successful 2020. (MediaPunch/Shutterstock)

“We tin each take each day, whether it’s emotion oregon fear, and my lad made his choices and I did the champion I could arsenic a ma and I’m not going to instrumentality immoderate guilt oregon shame,” Melissa explained. “He wouldn’t privation maine to halt and ruin my beingness due to the fact that of his choices.”

The caller outlook comes aft the “Come to My Window” vocalist antecedently said she was struggling with guilt 3 months aft Beckett’s death. “There volition ever beryllium that that spot successful my bosom and my psyche that that has a small spot of, ‘Oh, what could what could I person done? And is it my responsibility helium ended this way?’ and each that benignant of thing,” she told Rolling Stone successful August 2020. “And it conscionable gets smaller and smaller, due to the fact that it doesn’t service maine anymore, and wherever helium is now, helium surely doesn’t privation maine to instrumentality that on.” she told the outlet, adding, “So, you know, if that tin assistance immoderate parents who mightiness beryllium torturing themselves with that … I judge beingness is meant to beryllium lived with arsenic overmuch joyousness arsenic we can.”

Melissa shared Beckett with her ex Julie Cypher. The erstwhile brace besides share his older sister Bailey. Both Beckett and Bailey are the biologic children of Melissa’s adjacent person and celebrated instrumentalist David Crosby. The siblings were welcomed via artificial insemination. Melissa is besides parent to 15-year-old twins, lad Miller and daughter Johnnie, with ex Tammy Lynn Michaels. Currently, Melissa is joined to producer Linda Wallem, who she wed successful 2014.