Melissa Etheridge explores the power of music and redemption in the new docuseries “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken.” The two-part series follows the “I’m the Only One” singer back home to Leavenworth, Kansas, where she performs at the place where she got her start as a folk singer at age 12: The women’s prison.
After receiving letters from some of the Topeka Correctional Facility residents. Etheridge decided to write and perform an original song in their honor. The folk singer unpacks many of the inmates struggles with addiction, while she processes her own grief as her son died from an opioid overdose in 2020 at just 21 years old.
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