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US singer Melissa Etheridge with her son Beckett Cypher 2011 in Hollywood. (Archive picture)
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Beckett Cypher, the son of US singer Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher, died at the age of 21. “As of today, I am among the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,” wrote the musician on Wednesday (local time) on Twitter. Beckett fought against his addiction, but ultimately lost the fight. “My heart is broken,” said Etheridge. “What else could we have done to save him. Ultimately, we now know that he is no longer in pain. » She would sing again soon, that always brought her healing.
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They were sad to announce the death of Beckett, the spokesman for the musician had initially posted on the Twitter website on Wednesday. There would therefore be no house concert on the day. Etheridge (58, “I’m The Only One”) had given a small song performance every day at home during the corona pandemic and put it online. A few hours after the first clue, the musician spoke personally about the cause of death.
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The boy came from the relationship of the lesbian rocker with the filmmaker Julie Cypher in the 1990s. Cypher gave birth to daughter Bailey Jean in 1997 and Beckett a year later. Sperm donor was a close friend of the couple, veteran rocker David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash. From a later relationship with actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, Etheridge had twins born in 2006. The Grammy award winner has been married to producer and actress Linda Wallem (“Nurse Jackie”) since 2014. (SDA)
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