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Brad Pitt Was Almost Melissa Etheridge’s Sperm Donor?!

The singer-songwriter dished on her paternal choices in the Bravo Clubhouse.

By Tamara Palmer
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Melissa Etheridge chose legendary musician David Crosby to be the sperm donor for her two children, but he wasn't the only superstar under consideration at the time. And when the singer-songwriter appeared in the Bravo Clubhouse on Thursday night for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenshe revealed another potential papa who was in the running.

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"Brad [Pitt] was considered," she revealed. "He was a very good friend of mine. And that just seemed like really complicated, like super complicated."

"I wonder why!" fellow guest and Jennifer Aniston pal Chelsea Handler snarked.

The two guest had just had a moment to tease Angelina Jolie, who never responded to Melissa after she performed an original song called "Brangelina" back in the day on WWHL.

"My children are like, 'I coulda had Brad Pitt as a father!" Melissa joked.

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