MELISSA ETHERIDGE - ETHERIDGE INSISTED ON ANONYMOUS SPERM DONOR

ETHERIDGE INSISTED ON ANONYMOUS SPERM DONOR

American rocker MELISSA ETHERIDGE insisted on having an anonymous sperm donor when she decided to add to her family with gay lover TAMMY LYNN MICHAELS, because she didn't want a repeat of her past media storm. The lesbian singer/songwriter regretted announcing classic rocker DAVID CROSBY was the father of the two children she had with ex-partner JULIE CYPHER and she was determined not to make the same mistake again. The I'M THE ONLY ONE singer's wife of three years, actress Michaels, gave birth to the couple's twins, daughter JOHNNIE ROSE and son MILLER STEVEN on 17 October (06), and this time the whole affair will be kept private. Crosby famously posed with Etheridge, Cypher and their children BAILEY, now nine, and BECKETT, now eight, for a Rolling Stone magazine cover after the CROSBY, STILLS + NASH star helped the same-sex couple conceive their babies. Etheridge explains, "We really only need Tammy and me to be parents in this. I feel very confident in us as parents." Michaels adds, "We are not going to be on the cover of a magazine going, 'Oh, the donor is GEORGE CLOONEY!' We don't know who the donor is. "We don't want to know. We're in a lesbian relationship. It's two moms, period."