Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterIn a new video interview with Rolling Stone, singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge speaks at length for the first time about the death of her son, Beckett Cypher, who died in May.She describes coming to terms with the 21-year-old’s self-destructive streak well before his death, aware that a happy ending may not be in store.“As the mother of someone who was addicted to opioids, it’s a struggle,” Etheridge says in the RS interview. “You want to help your child.
You want to make them all better. He was a young adult. There were things out of my control, of course. And there came a time when I needed to really sit down with myself and say, ‘I can’t save him.
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