Beckett Cypher has died at the age of 21 following a battle with opioid addiction. His heartbroken mother Melissa Etheridge shared the news in an emotional post to Twitter last night. "We struggle with what else we could have done to save him, and in the end we know he is out of the pain now," said Melissa.
Beckett was the second son of singer-songwriter Melissa and filmmaker Julie Cypher, who split two years after he was born. When Beckett was one, Melissa revealed that her son was welcomed via artificial insemination and his biological father is singer David Crosby.
Crosby is also the father of Beckett's older sister Bailey, who was also welcomed via artificial insemination. Speaking out in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in