Melissa Etheridge Recalls Late Son Beckett Coming Out as Straight
Melissa Etheridge opened up about the unexpected moment when her late son, Beckett, came out as straight to her.
“I remember, my oldest son, Beckett, who actually passed away, when he was about 11, he comes to me and says, ‘Mom, I’m sorry, but I think I’m straight,” Etheridge, 64, revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, April 8. “I was like, ‘No, no, really, it’s OK!’”
Etheridge joked that she tried to tell her son that he was just going through “a phase.” The two-time Grammy Award winner also compared her experience with Beckett to her own childhood, during which she felt like a “to...
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