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Word vs word on ellen degeneres4/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Which closeted-now-out celebrities asked for her guidance back then? It’s totally up to you, you don’t have to explain anything to me.’ There were a lot, and some have since come out.” I had people come to me and say, ‘I see you being out,’ and they would apologize to me because they were not out. “Yes, there you go,” said Etheridge, smiling.Īfter Etheridge came out, she was approached for advice by a lot of other then-closeted celebrities. That sounds like a “Yes, but I’m not telling you who,” this reporter said. I was attracted to more feminine-in relation to energy-women.”ĭid she have relationships with other famous women? “Not that I can tell…” Etheridge said, before bursting into more laughter. We all had that aggressive power, they were more like my brothers. I couldn’t do it now.”ĭid Etheridge have more intimate relationships with lang, DeGeneres, or O'Donnell? “No, k.d., Ellen, and Rosie were very much like me. It was a great time, I just have to tell you. And his party got really excited looking down at our party. “Once, Wesley Snipes was renting it, and Wesley was up there having a party, and we were down here having a party where it got to the point clothes were being removed. “There was another house in the Hollywood Hills above ours owned by the boss of my record company, Chris Blackwell, who rented it out,” she said, remembering the halcyon ’90s. The show should be a riot if Etheridge is as candid and engaging as she is today talking about coming out, the Hollywood closet, love, losing and grieving Beckett, her passion for music and experience of fame, how to counter the anti-LGBTQ politics of today, and why she loves to just rock out. This is very theatrical and very exciting.” This is new for me, in that I’m not rock-and-rolling, or playing a concert. I’m excitedly nervous, but that’s a wonderful place to be after what I have done in my career. “My art is best when I’m truthful with it, when I really go into human experience. “I’ve gotten kind of used to baring my soul,” Etheridge, now 61, told The Daily Beast. In a few hours, she will play the city’s opera house, and soon she will be in New York, unpacking her life in story and song in the two-hour show My Window: A Journey Through Life (New World Stages, Oct. Today, Etheridge is in a hotel room in Santa Fe, water bottle at her side during our Zoom call. ![]() ![]() Her most recent album, released in September last year, was One Way Out. Her 21-year-old son Beckett died of opioid addiction in 2020. She married her wife, the actor and writer Linda Wallem, in 2014. In 2011 Etheridge received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Etheridge herself came out in 1993, a huge public declaration at the time.Īfter surviving breast cancer (and performing, powerfully, at the 2005 Grammys bald, alongside Joss Stone), Etheridge won an Oscar in 2007 for “I Need to Wake Up,” a song she wrote for Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Etheridge released her self-named debut album in 1988 her breakthrough 1992 album Yes I Am featured three tracks-“I’m the Only One,” “Come to My Window,” and “If I Wanted To”-which all reached the U.S. Since the ’90s, there have been album sales in the many millions, Grammys, an Oscar, GLAAD awards, and many other gongs, laurels, and nominations. It sounds like (lesbian drama series) The L Word was happening around your pool, just a few years before it was imagined around Bette and Tina’s, this reporter said. Everyone got on with their lives, but this was a beautiful, golden time when we all had our dreams of what we wanted, and then we saw each of us just explode in our lives and careers. Now I only see Ellen like once a year maybe. I’m really glad I got to go through that in my life and know all these people. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of cannabis-smoking, and a whole lot of fun when I look back on it. That’s why we could get together as often as we did, and we weren’t as famous-so we had more time to hang out. From 1988 to 1996, it was this really powerful group. ![]() I had met Rosie through VH1 (where O’Donnell worked before starring in A League of Their Own), and Ellen through a celebrity chef we both knew. And so she knew that whole young Hollywood set: Dermot Mulroney, Catherine Keener, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts. “My partner at the time (Julie Cypher, who she was with from 1990 to 2000), had been married to a young ’80s movie star (Lou Diamond Phillips, from 1987 to 1990). “A crazy thing happened,” recalled Etheridge. lang, Rosie O’Donnell, and Ellen DeGeneres: all famous and out, or on the verge of fame and headline-making comings-out. Yes, the famous lesbians of that era hung out together, Etheridge recalled to The Daily Beast laughing-herself, k.d. Once upon a time, in the ’90s, the rock star Melissa Etheridge had a house above the legendary Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles-and arguably the better parties happened around her pool. ![]()
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