Melissa Etheridge: Her Scrappy Start, Coming Out as a Rockstar in the 90's, and How Cancer Changed the Way She Sees Everything

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Melissa Etheridge is one of the most prolific singer/songwriters of the past three decades. She sits down with Guy to talk about her incredible career and life – opening up about her decision to come out as gay at the height of her fame, the reason she calls her 2004 cancer diagnosis "the best thing that's happened to me," and how, in her early 60's, she's still getting better at her craft every day. Melissa's new memoir, Talking to My Angels, is out now. And her autobiographical show Melissa Etheridge: My Window is currently on Broadway, starring, of course, Melissa.

Links from the show:

Like the Way I Do" music video

Melissa performing "Piece of My Heart" between chemotherapy treatments at the 2005 Grammy Awards

Etheridge Foundation for opioid abuse relief

Melissa's new book: Talking to My Angels

Melissa's autobiographical Broadway show Melissa Etheridge: My Window

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