Melissa Etheridge

[LurkerNan]

I wonder if Tammy will start acting again... she's been gone so long from the public eye, it might be hard for her to get her career back. I remember when she was on Popular, she seemed like the Next Big Thing.

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Apr 15, 2010 11:35:41 GMT -4 LurkerNan said:

I wonder if Tammy will start acting again... she's been gone so long from the public eye, it might be hard for her to get her career back. I remember when she was on Popular, she seemed like the Next Big Thing.

I hope so; I thought she was great in Popular (and that short-lived sit-com where she played the neighbour).

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Apr 15, 2010 11:35:41 GMT -4 LurkerNan said:

I wonder if Tammy will start acting again... she's been gone so long from the public eye, it might be hard for her to get her career back. I remember when she was on Popular, she seemed like the Next Big Thing.

It might be difficult to start acting again in your mid 30's if you are best known for playing a teenager (though I was surprised to learn she was already 24 when she started playing Nicole).

Actually I'd love to see her on Glee.

[LurkerNan]

Apr 17, 2010 14:52:03 GMT -4 ross said:

Apr 15, 2010 11:35:41 GMT -4 LurkerNan said:

I wonder if Tammy will start acting again... she's been gone so long from the public eye, it might be hard for her to get her career back. I remember when she was on Popular, she seemed like the Next Big Thing.

It might be difficult to start acting again in your mid 30's if you are best known for playing a teenager (though I was surprised to learn she was already 24 when she started playing Nicole).

Actually I'd love to see her on Glee.

God yes. Glee is so much like Popular (with singing) that it would mkae perfect sense. Like she could be the perfect bitchy foil to offset Sue's domination of the other teachers... I'd love to see that cat fight.

[Atreides]

If they can get both Nicole and Mary Cherry from Popular onto Glee, I will die of happiness. Hey, Ryan Murphy created both shows and he likes to re-use his actors so it could happen!

[margojata]

I'm goin' all "Think of the children!" here. Why can't couples try to actually WORK through their problems when there are LITTLE children? Everyone quits so damn fast. Now Melissa has 4 young children and she's not with their mothers. How long before she shows up with another gal pal and starts another family?

[ikmccall]

I know what you're saying, margojata, but we really don't know that they haven't tried to work through their problems. They may have been putting on brave, happy faces for a long time.

[angelaudie]

Well, Melissa's split with the mother of her two older children wasn't exactly Melissa's call. Julie decided she wasn't gay. Needless to say that relationship didn't stand a chance after that revelation. I believe Tammy was the first serious relationship Melissa had after splitting with Julie so it's kinda amazing they lasted as long as they did.

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Apr 18, 2010 17:52:40 GMT -4 angelaudie said:

Well, Melissa's split with the mother of her two older children wasn't exactly Melissa's call. Julie decided she wasn't gay. Needless to say that relationship didn't stand a chance after that revelation. I believe Tammy was the first serious relationship Melissa had after splitting with Julie so it's kinda amazing they lasted as long as they did.

I will never understand Julie. I've known a few people who've realized relatively late in life that they're actually gay/lesbian/bi/transgender. I get that. But being straight and (apparently) happily married to a guy, then you realize you're a lesbian... and then living as spouses with and having kids with a woman.... and then you're just NOT GAY?! Julie didn't say "I'm bi, I no longer want to be with Melissa, and I'll date men or women", she said "Nope, not a lesbian." Really? Because she went above and beyond expectations in proving the opposite.

[margojata]

Not so mutual ..

Is the breakup of Melissa and Tammy Etheridge turning into a "she said, she said" situation?

On The Oprah Winfrey Show Friday, singer Melissa, 45, spoke diplomatically about her separation -- announced last week -- from actress Tammy, 35 (formerly known as Tammy Lynn Michaels).

The Grammy winner called the end of their nine-year partnership "sad" and "as mutual as those things can be." But she told Oprah Winfrey "it's certainly not even fair of me to stand here and tell my story when Tammy doesn't have an opportunity." Nevertheless, she called the actress "a wonderful woman and an incredible mother," to their three-year-old twins. "We want to do all the things that are best to keep our children healthy and secure."

The breast cancer survivor added that life is "about evolving...I'm no good to anyone else unless I'm completely in love with myself and good with myself."

Yet Tammy painted a different picture in an entry on her personal blog, "Hollywood Farm Girl" posted the same day as Melissa's Oprah appearance, implying that her ex is being dishonest. "This [blog] will be the only place where you will get the truth," she writes in her poetically-styled entry. "Hollywood Farm Girl is the only one who gets it right, who won't spin, won't lie won't act like there was drifting."

In a February blog post that has since been deleted, the actress wrote of being "blindsided" and "missing a piece of me that is so large."