Tammy Lynn Michaels

Tammy Lynn Michaels, Melissa Etheridge‘s former partner, is offering more details about her health and financial situation than most people require.

Michaels went public with the claim that she's $500,000 in debt and has no health insurance but needed surgery because her insides were “exploding.”

Tammy Lynn Michaels' two-year feud with one-time domestic partner Melissa Etheridge has come to an end. Well, for this morning anyway.

The former couple, who have twin five-year-olds together, hashed out an agreement earlier this week as part of court-ordered mediation.

Yes, Tammy Lynn Michaels is demanding more money from ex Melissa Etheridge. She does not believe that $23,000 per month is sufficient spousal/child support.

But Michaels says in a new interview this is not because she's greedy. It's because the singer allegedly makes $178,000 per month and it's a question of math, fairness and gay rights.

Melissa Etheridge has filed legal documents claiming that her former domestic partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, is responsible for all sorts of bad stuff.

Namely accidentally burning one of their kids with a cigarette.

Looks like Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels are still at odds.

Tammy Lynn filed legal papers saying she needs more than the $23,000 per month that her ex, Melissa, is currently shelling out for spousal and child support.

Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels are at odds over ... well, what are they NOT at odds over would be a better question. The longtime lovebirds are engaged in a full-scale legal war surrounding their former union.

The legality of which is currently in question.

Reliable sources have confirmed that Melissa Etheridge really is dating Linda Wallem, the creator of Nurse Jackie and former best friend of ex-wife Tammy Lynn Michaels.

That's awkward. But it's not nearly as awkward as the way in which Michales learned that Etheridge was being unfaithful, as explained in a new poem Tammy has posted on her website, titled "speak, spread walk the talk." It tells the story of a mis-labeled box of dildos.

The split between Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels just got a lot messier.

While the two continue to argue over financial issues, the singer's personal life has now come into focus - and it's a hurtful image for Michaels.

Through the use of poems, Tammy Lynn Michaels has spent the last few weeks going off on Melissa Etheridge. She claims the singer left her and the couple's children in poverty, scarcely able to afford food on a daily basis.

Asked if this allegation was true, Etheridge simply tells the latest issue of Us Weekly: "No, it's not."

Tammy Lynn Michaels says ex-wife Melissa Etheridge has screwed her and the couple's children out of money.

Etheridge, conversely, has seemingly proven in court that this isn't the case.

Over the past couple weeks, Tammy Lynn Michaels has penned a couple blog entries that painted Melissa Etheridge in a very poor light.

The most recent poem claims Michaels does not have a dollar to her name, a statement that comes soon after this former actress filed for full custody of her and the singer's children.

First, Tammy Lynn Michaels was "blindsided" by her break-up with Melissa Etheridge.

Then, she was denied $25,000 in court this week to help her cover the legal fees of their split and upcoming custody battle.

Round one of the Melissa Etheridge/Tammy Lynn Michaels split has gone to the singer.

Following Etheridge's motion to dissolve her partnership with Michaels, the latter filed for full custody of the pair's children and stated that her ex has not been supporting her or the kids "financially and otherwise."

Tammy Lynn Michaels says she was "blindsided" by her break-up with Melissa Etheridge.

But she's gathered herself together enough to fight back and file for full custody of the pair's twin children, Johnnie and Miller.

It's not a happy Fourth of July for Tammy Lynn Michaels.

The day after singer Melissa Etheridge filed papers to official end their partnership, Michaels took to her blog and said she was "blindsided" by the decision. She wrote:

Melissa and Tammy Etheridge have broken up after nearly nine years and tow children together, the couple's rep said in a statement Wednesday.

The long-term partners decided to part ways this year: "Melissa and Tammy Etheridge are saddened to announce that they are now separated."

Following in the footsteps of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Melissa Etheridge and longtime partner Tammy Lynn Michaels are planning to marry.

"Yes, we have four children and we're trying to find the right time," the singer, 47, and her partner, 33, told celebrity gossip TV program Extra.

Isaiah Washington may hate gays, but not all of them hate him back.

Lesbian actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, partner of rocker Melissa Etheridge, is the first (and thus far, only) voice from the entertainment world's gay community to come out and defend the Grey's Anatomy pariah.