{"id":807417,"date":"2020-05-13T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=999410"},"modified":"2020-05-13T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:31:00","slug":"melissa-etheridges-son-beckett-cypher-dead-at-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/melissa-etheridges-son-beckett-cypher-dead-at-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Etheridge\u2019s Son, Beckett Cypher, Dead at 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beckett Cypher, the son of Melissa Etheridge<\/a> and her former partner filmmaker Julie Cypher, has died. He was 21. Beckett\u2019s death was related to opioid addiction, Etheridge said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cMy son Beckett, who was just 21, struggled to overcome his addiction and finally succumbed to it today. He will be missed by those who loved him, his family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is broken,\u201d she continued. \u201cI am grateful for those who have reached out with condolences and I feel their love and sincere grief. 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. I will sing again, soon. It has always healed me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Etheridge and Cypher, who met in 1988 during a video shoot, have two children \u2014 their daughter Bailey and son Beckett. For several years after their children were born, people speculated about who was the sperm donor for their children. In 2000, the couple revealed it was fellow musician David Crosby.<\/p>\n

While the then-couple was vacationing in Hawaii, they met up with Crosby and his wife Jan and began discussing their want to have children, but they had a dilemma as to whom to have as a sperm donor. \u201cAnd Jan said, \u2018What about David?\u2019\u201d Etheridge told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt came from her, which was the best, most perfect way.\u201d They thought it over for a year before they made the call. \u201cFor one, he\u2019s musical, which means a lot to me, you know, and I admire his work,\u201d says Etheridge. \u201cAnd he has his own life, has his own family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby told Rolling Stone<\/em> he didn\u2019t hesitate at his wife\u2019s proposition that he be the donor. \u201cMelissa and Julie are good people,\u201d he said. \u201cNice set of values, they\u2019re funnier than shit, and they\u2019ve got courage. All rare stuff. You could see that they were in love with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Etheridge and Cypher split up later in 2000, but they continued to co-parent. Etheridge is also the mother of twins, son Miller and daughter Johnnie.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Melissa Etheridge (@metheridge) May 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Beckett Cypher, the son of Melissa Etheridge and her former partner filmmaker Julie Cypher, has died. He was 21. Beckett\u2019s death was related to opioid addiction, Etheridge said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cToday I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cMy […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 04:58:39","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}