It’s been two months since the legendary singer Melissa Etheridge lost her 21 year-old son Beckett to a drug overdose. Now, the 59 year-old icon is opening up about how she is doing in the wake of this unimaginable loss.
Fox News reported that Etheridge sat down with “Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts on Wednesday morning in her first interview since Beckett’s death.
“Time does heal,” she said. “It’s only been a couple of months, but I’ve been very busy and made myself very busy. You go one day at a time. You get through the grief and you get to the healing.”
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“There’s something about singing, something about opening the soul, it’s got me through everything,” she continued. “So many people throughout my life said, ‘Your music got me through this, your music got me through that.’ And I now am using my music to get me through this.”
Etheridge said that she has particularly been leaning on her song “Talking to My Angel,” which she wrote after her father passed away in the 1990s.
“That was about connecting to those who have passed to the non-physical,” she explained. “I’ve been talking to my angel and he says that it’s all right. It’s a way of self-soothing that I can draw on.”
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One of the things that Etheridge has struggled with most is that she “can’t help to feel responsible” for the death of her son, who first started taking painkillers after breaking his ankle during a snowboarding incident. That being said, the singer knows that she did “everything she can.”
“As a parent, you know your children have their own lives and make their own choices – but you just can’t help to feel responsible, of course, for them,” she said. “When you see one start to struggle, you go through so many things. You go through the, ‘What can I do to help them?’ You go through the ‘Wait, I’m doing too much, I don’t want to enable this.’ They need to find themselves, they need to fall to get back up.”
In the wake of her son’s passing, Etheridge has been staying busy with the launch of Etheridge TV, a streaming service that offers live concerts and chat sessions from her own home garage studio.
“It’s a way to connect to people,” Etheridge said. “It’s, of course, healing for me — but mostly to connect with my fans. Because all over, we are isolated and it’s starting to get hard on us. It’s one thing that I think contributed to Beckett’s passing that he had nowhere to go. He couldn’t get on his skateboard and go to the skateboard park. There are people who are still suffering and I want to give them relief in this crazy world that we are in right now.”
She also wants to help raise awareness about drug abuse and addiction.
“I’m very intense about raising funds for research into what we can do with this disease,” said Etheridge. “The scourge that takes so many of our young people every day.”
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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