Melissa Etheridge opened up about the unexpected moment when her late son, Beckett, came out as straight to her. "I remember, my oldest son, Beckett, who actually passed away, when he was about 11, he comes to me and says, 'Mom, I'm sorry, but I think I'm straight," Etheridge, 64, revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, April 8. "I was like, 'No, no, really, it's OK!'" Etheridge joked that she tried to tell her son that he was just going through "a phase.