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Teddi Mellencamp is battling stage 4 cancer that includes multiple brain tumors, and as brutal as that diagnosis is, she has been bravely sharing her fight with fans. So many things about the situation are heartbreaking, but her most recent admission about what pains her the most ..
. well, it’s hard not to shed a few tears when you hear it. “I’m like, ‘I don’t think you understand the debilitating pain that I feel some days thinking about the fact that, like, my kids,” she said getting emotional in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight.
” “That is extremely frightening,” the 43-year-old continued. “My kids are young.” Mellencamp has three children — daughters Dove (5) and Slate (12) and a son, Cruz (10).
And in the interview, she talked about being in the hospital after a surgery to remove some of her brain tumors. “I was like, ‘I feel like today might be Dove’s birthday,’” she said. “And (her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave) is like, ‘It is.
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She said that is when he told her not to worry about it. “We’ll throw another one,” she said he said. But, she said, her heart broke because she wasn’t there for Dove.
Mellencamp also admitted in a recent interview that she is scared. And that came up as she discussed the odds that doctors have given her as she fights to live. “I learned this isn’t the best question to ask if you’re doing immunotherapy, because immunotherapy has only been around 10 years,” she said.
“It’s one of my favorite things to ask is, ‘How long I got? What are my chances?’ And they oftentimes say 50/50. 50/50? I wouldn’t buy a car that’s only gonna drive 50 percent of the time. I don’t want this.
” But Mellencamp, who is the daughter of legendary rocker John Mellencamp, said doctors told her the odds are such “because that’s how long immunotherapy has been around so that’s how long the study has worked.” “So that’s when I then try to find the positive,” she said. Mellencamp, who also starred in the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” revealed the one thing that scares her about it all, too.
“This is completely out of my control, and for the first time, I’m like really scared,” she said. Mellencamp also recently revealed that she and her father have made her end-of-life plans. “Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row,” she said on the ‘Two T’s in a Pod’ podcast.
“Finally I answer — ‘I’m in the bath! Let me live a little!’” Teddi said that her father told her he just wanted “to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum.” Her co-host, Tamara Judge, was a bit taken aback that John would call his daughter to have the discussion as she has made it clear that she intends to fight. Teddi said she asked him where her kids — she has three — would go when they die.
“He’s like, ‘Well, there’s gonna be the top five, and then we’re gonna have little areas around it and then that’s where everyone’s gonna get buried,’” she said. Mellencamp shared heartbreaking news last month, revealing to fans that she had surgery to remove multiple tumors from her brain. However, she said, a follow-up scan showed more than doctors first believed.
“I have multiple tumors in my brain that weren’t able to be removed via surgery,” she wrote. “I also have 2 tumors in my lung. These are all metastases of my melanoma.
” She was first diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma on her shoulder in 2023 and had surgery to remove it..
