Huffington Post Article: Lesbian Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Slams Ex Wife Melissa Etheridge!
A day after Melissa Etheridge filed legal papers to end their domestic partnership Friday, Tammy Lynn Michaels has taken to her blog twice in one day to say she was not only blindsided by the filing, but has been left basically broke with their kids, borrowing money to pay for gas.
In court papers Etheridge requested joint custody and asked that she not have to pay Michaels any support.
But according to Michaels the pair had agreed not to do anything until the fall:
SMACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
FILE FOR DIVORCE!!!!!!
even though we both promised
agreed
handshook
pinkyswore
no filing until after tour
in the fallher broken promises
told to me by
headlines
Etheridge has two older children in addition to twins that Michaels gave birth to in 2006. In her first posting on Saturday, Michaels writes that in 2001 she put an indefinite hold on her successful acting career to help care for Etheridge’s older children while she was on tour.
i gave up my managers, agents, contacts, all that good stuff, because i stepped directly into potty training a small boy, and carrying around a small girl on my hip. both excellent souls. and i was a very huge part in raising them for many many years while She with the Guitar focused on her Guitar.
And she goes on:
the other week i had to borrow money from a friend. two weeks ago i had to scrape together $1.25 to pay for gas. i know she doesn’t want to give me money. trust. i’m borrowing cash left and right from people to get through this summer, and feed my kids, with a stomach full of ulcers, thank you. no stress here. 🙂
how’s that spiritual tour coming along?
so now…. to open the lap top…. and read the headlines…. when i just spoke to the fame crawler yesterday…. she could have mentioned it….. and hmmm…. wants some custody of kids…. interesting…. but no $ support for me… interesting as well…. so so so interesting, there, melissa. practicing what we preach is always hard for americans, i think. (is that why you and rick warren got along so well? ) oh, the nights of promises…. “tammy, if i ever leave you, it’s because i’m crazy, and you have to come find me and get me and save me!!! we have to be together forever!” (remember that one, lucky?)
Etheridge went on Oprah in April to promote her new album, and claimed at the time the split was “as mutual as those things can be” and “sad.”
Article: Lesbian Drama: Melissa Etheridge’s Ex Tammy Lynn Michaels Wants Full Custody & Spousal Support!
Tammy Lynn Michaels seeks full custody of her twins with Melissa Etheridge
Published: Thursday, July 08, 2010, 8:45 PM
Tammy Lynn Michaels wants full custody of her 3-year-old twins with Melissa Etheridge, People.com reports, citing divorce papers filed nearly a week after Etheridge “blindsided” her by moving to dissolve their domestic partnership.
The couple, who had been together for nine years and who exchanged vows in 2003, announced their split in April, and while Etheridge has claimed it was mutual, Michaels has written a series of increasingly bitter posts on her blog indicating it was far from mutual, and that Etheridge was much more interested in her guitar, her fans and her fame than in beign a good partner and raising their children (not to mention her older children with former girlfriend Julie Cypher).
Michaels wants full legal and physical custody of the twins, with Etheridge allowed visitation, and wants spousal support. Etheridge’s filing asked the court to deny spousal support for Michaels, even though Michaels gave up her acting career to be a stay-at-home mom. Michaels’ paperwork seeks a dissolution of their marriage, even though they did not legally marry. “Both she and Melissa gave it the dignity of a marriage – they had a marital ceremony back in 2001,” Michaels’ lawyer Steve Knowles tells People. “If the court system says there was no such thing as a marriage and tells us we have to amend it to a domestic partnership, so be it. It’s a symbolic act on Tammy’s part, and frankly she thought it would be better for the children if they were recognized as children of a married couple.”
Poem: Eulogy By Orville Lloyd Douglas.
The day you died was the happiest moment of my life.
Although I wasn’t cognizant of this moment last September, I am happy that you no longer exist.
You are not a real human being.
Instead of having an aorta, lungs, or blood pumping through your veins you do not have the will to survive.
At the age of twenty seven your time was running out.
How much longer can this illusion continue?
This reticence of shattering the canyon of silence?
Etched in the vault of discontent, was this acknowledgement your demise is actually a peace-offering.
It was a prescient moment, not an epiphany to regret about.
Your elixir was also your poison that ended your pathetic existence.
The marijuana consumed your essence until you lost all sense of reason.
I guess smoking up in your vehicle by the Tim Horton’s restaurant at 2:00 am in the morning is your recipe for understanding.
I know, I am supposed to having feelings of pathos but I can’t help it.
I want to jump up and shout and tell the world that I am free.
I no longer have to think about the long nights of doubt, of tossing and turning wondering about you.
I can get a good’s night sleep and not worry about the frantic 4:00 am phone calls as you cried about family honour or arranged marriages.
I no longer have to be a prisoner in a cloud of shame.
Is the closet really Pandora’s Box?
Would it be so hard to unlock the truth to your parents?
You sealed your fate when you decided that “honour” was more important than living life .
The suffocation was killing me but I am finally emancipated.
It took time for this period of convalescence to occur.
There are no more days of unhappiness that formed a cauldron of pain circling through my mind.
Now I can complete several somersaults and cartwheels celebrating your death.
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