Melissa Etheridge tells Winfrey breakup was mutual

Melissa Etheridge tells Oprah Winfrey breakup was mutual, former partner ‘wonderful woman’ Musician Melissa Etheridge says her separation from her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge, was mutual. On Friday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Etheridge told Winfrey the separation was “as mutual as those things can be.” She also called the breakup “sad.” The 48-year-old singer calls …