"The situation was special with my partner at the time because she had been adopted and she wanted her children to know who their biological father was," Etheridge says of her ex Julie Cypher.

Etheridge is also mom to daughter Bailey, 27, and son Beckett, who died in 2020 at age 21, with former partner Julie Cypher. Erika Goldring/Getty Images But she and Wallem had a solid foundation ...

Beckett died Wednesday after struggling with opioid addiction. Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher's son Beckett has died at the age of 21.

Melissa Etheridge announces son Beckett Cypher has died aged 21 ...