Melissa Etheridge is using her own tragedy in hopes it will help other families.
on Friday, Etheridge explained why she decided to open up about her son's death and addiction.
"I have always walked my path openly and I make mistakes," she continued."I’m up and down, but I do the best I can and maybe showing the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers how to, not understand, but how to walk and live with shame and guilt and the stigma that opioid addiction can bring into a family, if we can put it out in front and go, ‘Wow, this is a really big problem and there aren’t any easy answers. And let’s all come together and put some light on this.
"I didn’t want to blame genetics. I know we have predispositions," she replied."My oldest daughter who’s about two years older than Beckett, is extremely successful, graduated from Columbia University, going to, getting her Master’s at the London School of Economics. 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.
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