Melissa Etheridge’s son Beckett dies from opioid addiction at 21

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Melissa Etheridge’s son Beckett dies from opioid addiction at 21

New York Daily News | Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:39 a.m.

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In this Aug. 16, 2000, file photo, Melissa Etheridge (left) and Julie Cypher arrive at a fundraiser for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation in Los Angeles. Their 21-year-old son Beckett Cypher has died.

Melissa Etheridge’s son Beckett Cypher died from opioid addiction Wednesday at 21.

The singer confirmed the cause of death in a tweet Wednesday night.

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— Melissa Etheridge (@metheridge) May 14, 2020

Etheridge, 58, and former partner Julie Cypher welcomed Beckett in 1998, with help from a sperm donation by David Crosby.

Beckett was Etheridge and Cypher’s second child. He had an older sister, Bailey Jean, born a year earlier.

After Etheridge and Cypher split in 2002, she welcomed twins Miller and Johnnie Etheridge with new partner Tammy Lynn Michaels in 2006.

Etheridge had been hosting singalongs on Facebook Live but canceled Wednesday’s.

“I will sing again, soon,” she said at the end of her tweet. “It has always healed me.”

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