Melissa Etheridge announced the death of her son Beckett on Wednesday, sharing that he had passed away after struggling with opioid addiction.Beckett, whom she shared with former partner Julie Cypher, was 21.'My heart is broken,' Etheridge said in a statementshared via Twitter.'We struggle with what else we could have done to save him, and in the end we know that he is out of the pain now.' Melissa Etheridge's son Beckett, pictured with his mom in 2011, has passed away.
He was 21Etheridge, 58, acknowledged that hers is now 'one of hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction.She wrote that her son 'struggled to overcome his addiction and finally succumbed to it today.''He will be missed by those who loved.
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