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L-R: Julie Cypher, Melissa Etheridge, David Crosby, Jan Crosby; Steve Granitz\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Melissa Etheridge<\/strong> and her then-partner Julie Cypher<\/strong> revealed in 2000<\/strong><\/a> that the father of their two children was legendary rocker David Crosby<\/strong>, it made headlines. But Melissa tells <\/strong>People<\/strong><\/em><\/a> that she and Cypher weren’t the only couple for whom Crosby served as a sperm donor.<\/p>\n

At the suggestion of his wife, Jan<\/strong>, Crosby \u2014 who at the time had four children of his own \u2014 fathered Melissa and Julie’s kids Bailey<\/strong>, 27, and Beckett<\/strong>, who died of an overdose in 2020.<\/p>\n

Melissa tells People <\/em>of David and Jan, “They had just had help having their son [Django<\/strong>] and they appreciated that. They wanted to pay it forward.” And, says Melissa, they continued to help other couples.<\/p>\n

“We’re still finding kids from David Crosby out in the world,” she says. “My daughter’s like, ‘I have another half-sister.'”<\/p>\n

As for why Melissa and Julie didn’t use an anonymous donor,\u00a0she\u00a0explains, “The situation was special with [Julie] because she had been adopted and she wanted her children to know who their biological father was. So we weren’t going to go to a sperm bank because she wanted them to know.”<\/p>\n

However, Melissa says she didn’t want someone who “wanted to be a father” to the children, so Crosby was “perfect.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He did not need to be [a father] [to them]. And that’s what really made it clear for me, was that he was willing to say, ‘Yeah, I was the biological father,'” Melissa says. “And my kids call him bio dad, so he’s the biological father, but they didn’t need a relationship with him.”<\/p>\n

She says that her relationship with Crosby, who died in 2023, “really taught me about generosity.” When he died, she wrote on Instagram, “He gave me the gift of family.”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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