Melissa Etheridge Could Have Used Brad Pitt As Sperm Donor But Decided Not To
Melissa Etheridge revealed that she considered Brad Pitt as a potential sperm donor but ended up choosing not to push through with the idea.
While promoting her new Paramount+ documentary, "Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken," she told the New York Post how she and her then-partner, Julie Cypher, considered using the "Fight Club" star as their sperm donor.
"I just knew I didn't want someone to be a donor that wanted to be a father, because they would want to be in their lives -- I wanted to be the other parent, you know? And so it just didn't work out," she said.
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She also described the actor as someone who loved children, saying, "When Brad Pitt was younger, it was always clear that he wanted children. He loved children. He would come over and actually play with my kids."
According to her, there even came a time when she would joke around to others that the "Meet Joe Black" actor was the father of her children.
"He was a friend of mine a long time ago. People would say, 'Who is Brad Pitt to you?' And I'd say, 'Well, he's the father of my children' or something," she recalled.
"I would joke around."
Etheridge and Cypher ended up asking for the help of Crosby, Stills & Nash member David Crosby as their sperm donor.
With Crosby's help, the "Bring Me Some Water" singer and her then-partner had their daughter Bailey Jean and son Beckett.
According to Melissa, it was Crosby's wife, Jan Dance, who suggested the sperm donor idea because "they had just had help having their son [Django]" and "wanted to pay it forward."
"He did not need to be [a father]. And that's what really made it clear for me, was that he was willing to say, 'Yeah, I was the biological father.' And my kids call him 'bio dad,' so he's the biological father, but they didn't need a relationship with him," she said of Crosby's relationship with her children.
In a 2000 interview with CBS, the Byrds member talked about the reason why he helped his friend.
"Was there any hesitation in my mind about trying to help them? No. None. The truth is, I probably shouldn't say this, but I don't even think it should be a big deal," he told the outlet.
"I think it's such a natural thing that a straight couple would do for a gay couple if they were friends."
