BY JULIE MILLER
It was the 90s. . .
Say Brad Pitt offered to provide a sample of his genetically perfect DNA for your offspring. You would certainly blurt/shriek “YES” before he even finished the formal offer, for fear he might think better of such a gesture. Who cares whether or not you are in a committed relationship with someone offering his own DNA—you will have hours to work out these issues in the car while driving Brad Jr. to and from his lucrative child modeling gigs, right?
Well, maybe not everyone would be so quick to snap up Pitt’s sperm sample. Take, for example, this Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who recently admitted that the actor offered to sire her child some two decades ago.
That singer-songwriter? Melissa Etheridge. In the late 90s—1997 and 1998, to be exact—Etheridge’s then-partner Julie Cypher gave birth to two children whose biological father was later revealed to beDavid Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But in a recent Australian interview with Studio 10’s Angela Bishop, Etheridge confessed that Brad Pitt also offered to be the biological parent to her offspring.
“Well actually, [Brad Pitt] was such a good friend of mine. And we did consider it,” Etheridge said. The reason she and Cypher ultimately decided against it, however?
“I looked and I saw how badly he wanted children and I thought, ‘I don’t want to share this with someone who really, badly wants children because my children don’t need another parent—they have two.’”
Etheridge has shared this information with her children, who, as you can imagine, are devastated by the missed genetic opportunity.
“Of course, my teenagers now are like, ‘I could have had Brad Pitt [as my dad]!” My son said, ‘I could’ve been amazingly handsome!’”
But Crosby was the better choice, Etheridge explained, because he already had kids.
“It’s one of the reasons why David Crosby and his wife are so perfect—because they [already] had children. They were looking to do this as a gift. And my children are lovely and gorgeous anyway.”
While it is uncertain how Etheridge and Pitt first met, the singer performed at his 2000 wedding to Jennifer Aniston. Etheridge admitted several years back that she had not spoken to the actor since he married Angelina Jolie. “But we were very close before that,” she said, adding, “I have reached out.”
not mine.credit and source: VANITY FAIR
No comments:
Post a Comment