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        <title><![CDATA[Melissa Etheridge finds ‘a small amount of peace’ over son’s tragic death]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Melissa Etheridge is taking things one day at a time after her 21-year-old son Beckett <strong>died of an opioid overdose</strong> earlier this year.</p><p><strong>During an interview</strong> on &#8220;Today With Hoda &amp; Jenna&#8221; on Thursday, the “Come To My Window” singer, 59, admitted, &#8220;there&#8217;s a small amount of peace knowing he&#8217;s not in pain anymore.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Our family is very, very close, and the strength comes from the love from the rest of us,&#8221; Etheridge explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m not alone in this nation of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction. It was a long journey.&#8221;</p><p>She continued,&nbsp;&#8220;Of course we miss him, but my wife and my three other children, we come together and we know he&#8217;s here in spirit. We do what we love and we love each other and come together, and you just do it one day at a time.&#8221;</p><p>Etheridge, who is married to Linda Wallem, is also mom to daughter Bailey, 23, and 13-year-old twins Johnnie Rose and Miller Steven. Bailey and Beckett’s biological father is music legend David Crosby.</p><p>The Grammy winner also announced that she has established The Etheridge Foundation, which will support research into the reasons and effects of opioid addiction.</p><p>&#8220;This is an epidemic. We lose over 150,000 people a year to opioid addiction,&#8221; she said. &#8220;One thing that helped me heal was starting The Etheridge Foundation. We&#8217;re just starting it and it&#8217;s rolling out and it is a foundation to research alternatives. To get off of this track of pharmaceuticals for pain. It&#8217;s research to understand addiction.&#8221;</p><p>Last month, the rock singer <strong>opened up to Rolling Stone </strong>about Beckett’s struggles with drug addiction.</p><p>She explained: “There were things out of my control, of course. And there came a time when I needed to really sit down with myself and say, &#8216;I can&#8217;t save him. I can&#8217;t give up my life and go try to live his life for him.&#8217; And I had to come up against the possibility that he might die. But I had to be able to go on living.</p><p>“Of course it&#8217;s nothing a parent ever wants. But as a human being, I just needed to be at peace with a troubled son who did the best he could, who believed what he believed and then his life ended way, way too soon.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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