Nineties singer Melissa Etheridge, 62, has opened up about how performing has helped her heal from dropping her 21-year-old son Beckett to habit three years in the past.
Speaking to Page Six, Etheridge candidly shared her new Broadway show is “healing” her in the aftermath of her son’s death in 2020 from an opioid habit.
“It’s healing every day,” she informed the outlet on the show’s opening evening on September 28.
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Etheridge is at the moment acting on Broadway in My Window. The autobiographical show, which opened on September 28, is concerning the singer’s wrestle with most cancers and grief over her son’s death.
“Every night I do this, I heal a little bit more because I’m talking about how my son would want me happy and I can believe that every night,” she informed Page Six.
The Come to My Window singer shared son Beckett Cypher together with her former accomplice Julie Cypher, who she break up from in 2000.
The Broadway star beforehand revealed she discovered singing ‘therapeutic’ when she launched the social media assertion in May 2021 that her son had died.
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“My heart is broken,” she mentioned on the time.
“I am grateful for those who have reached out with condolences and I feel their love and sincere grief,” Etheridge continued.
“We struggle with what else we could have done to save him, and in the end we know he is out of the pain now.”
The performer then assured that she would “sing again, soon.”
“It has always healed me,” she admitted.
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In September 2020, Etheridge opened up about her son’s death, revealing that her household have “predispositions” to habit.
Speaking on the Tamron Hall Show, the mother-of-four mentioned that genetics may need performed a component in Beckett’s opioid habit, which he struggled with for 4 years.
Beckett’s organic father David Crosby had battled drug and alcohol abuse in the previous.
“I didn’t want to blame genetics. I know we have predispositions,” Etheridge mentioned.
“So the genes are there, but the choices then are the individual’s to make and Beckett just, kind of, made the choices that made it harder and harder for him.”
Following Beckett’s tragic death, the singer opened The Etheridge Foundation in honour of her son to assist elevate consciousness and analysis into opioid habit.
“One thing that helped me heal was starting The Etheridge Foundation. We’re just starting it and it’s rolling out and it is a foundation to research alternatives,” she informed Today With Hoda & Jenna in September 2020.
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