{"id":292399,"date":"2020-05-14T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1152038"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:18:00","slug":"david-crosby-speaks-out-after-death-of-melissa-etheridges-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/david-crosby-speaks-out-after-death-of-melissa-etheridges-son\/","title":{"rendered":"David Crosby Speaks Out After Death of Melissa Etheridge&#8217;s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020414\/rs_600x600-200514131253-600-David-Crosby-and-Melissa-Etheridge.jpg?fit=around|1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>David Crosby<\/strong> is speaking out after <strong>Melissa Etheridge<\/strong>&#8216;s son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1151684\/melissa-etheridge-s-son-beckett-dead-at-21\" rel=\"nofollow\">passed away<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>The music icon, who helped the singer and her ex-partner <strong>Julie Cypher<\/strong> conceive via sperm donation, took to Twitter with a message for those questioning his involvement in the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I respectfully point out, David was their donor. They did not have a son &#8216;with&#8217; him. He was Melissa and Julie&#8217;s child,&#8221; one Twitter user wrote before deleting their message. &#8220;They raised him. Like most donors, he played no other part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David, however, saw the tweet and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedavidcrosby\/status\/1260745079532093440\" rel=\"nofollow\">replied<\/a>, &#8220;Not true.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another user was more supportive by writing, &#8220;I will be 40 next month. As long as I can remember anything at all you have been one of my favorite voices. While I know that you were a surrogate, I also know that you just lost a son. I&#8217;m sorry, I know you&#8217;ve had a rough year.&#8221; David responded and simply <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedavidcrosby\/status\/1260778804538032129\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s a test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, Melissa broke her silence on the death of her 21-year-old son Beckett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1152038\/david-crosby-speaks-out-after-death-of-melissa-etheridge-s-son?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Crosby is speaking out after Melissa Etheridge&#8216;s son passed away this week. The music icon, who helped the singer and her ex-partner Julie Cypher conceive via sperm donation, took to Twitter with a message for those questioning his involvement in the family. &#8220;I respectfully point out, David was their donor. They did not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 01:55:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}