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Melissa Etheridge Reveals How She Forgave Sister She Accused of Abuse: 'It Just Eats at You' (Exclusive)

Melissa Etheridge has said her older sister abused her starting when she was 6 or 7 years old.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, 63, opens up in this week’s issue of PEOPLE about her decision to move on from the sexual abuse that she has said was inflicted upon her by her older sister Jenny during their childhood. In her 2023 memoir Talking to My Angels, she expanded upon her allegations, writing that her sister began abusing her when she was 6 or 7 years old. The star is also helping others come to terms with their own pasts in the new two-part docuseries called Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken(out July 9 on Paramount+), in which she puts on a rock show for women at the Topeka Correctional Facility, a prison near her hometown of Leavenworth, Kansas.

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