The singer says there will “always be that place in my heart” that wonders “what could I have done?” (via toofab)
"There will always be that that place in my heart and my soul that that has a little bit of, ‘Oh, what could I have done? And is it my fault he ended this way?’ and all that sort of thing," she admitted.
But she also conceded that that feeling of guilt and responsibility"just gets smaller and smaller, because it doesn’t serve me anymore, and where he is now, he certainly doesn’t want me to take that on." Grappling with how to be the parent of an addict was something Etheridge admitted to struggling with."You want to help your child. You want to make them all better," she said, but there's only so much you can do as a parent.
Especially, as in this case, when your child becomes an adult."There were things out of my control, of course. And there came a time when I needed to really sit down with myself and say, ‘I can’t save him. I can’t give up my life and go try to live his life for him,'" she said."And I had to come up against the possibility that he might die."
It's a horrific thought to contemplate for every parent, and tragically in Etheridge's case a prescient one.
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