Melissa Etheridge is opening up about the tragic death of her son, Beckett Cypher. The 59-year-old musician spoke to Rolling Stone in a candid interview.
Here’s what she had to say… On grappling with the loss of her son, Beckett Cypher, who died in May at age 21 from causes related to an opiate addiction: “As the mother of someone who was addicted to opioids, it’s a struggle.
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. I can’t give up my life and go try to live his life for him.’ And I had to come up against the possibility that he might die.
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