Teddi Mellencamp Shares A Cancer Regret: ‘I Wasn’t There’

Teddi Mellencamp has opened up in regards to the impression her battle with stage 4 most cancers is having on her children.

Mellencamp shares three kids, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5, and a stepdaughter, Isabella, 15, along with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave.

The Bravo alum filed for divorce from Arroyave in November 2024, however the couple has put it on maintain as she tries to beat the lethal illness.

On Friday, Mellencamp sat down with Entertainment Tonight‘s Nischelle Turner to debate her battle with stage 4 most cancers and its impression on her household.

She started by giving a rundown of her well being journey since her melanoma prognosis three years in the past.

Because the interview progressed, Mellencamp opened up about her struggles, particularly with how her illness was affecting her relationship along with her children.

She mentioned, “I do not suppose you may perceive just like the debilitating ache that I really feel some days interested by the truth that like my children, you realize.”

At this level, Mellencamp obtained emotional and tried laborious to carry again the tears.

Turner additionally obtained emotional as she listened to Mellencamp, who continued, “You recognize like that’s extraordinarily horrifying. Like my children are younger. I imply, I bear in mind sooner or later within the hospital, I used to be like, ‘I really feel like immediately is perhaps Dove’s birthday,’ and Edwin’s like, ‘It’s. It is her occasion immediately that you just deliberate.'”

She recalled, “And I used to be like, ‘Can they please simply let me out for immediately?’ And he is like, ‘You understand you haven’t solely gone by way of huge mind surgical procedure, however you will have a gap in your head.'”

Mellencamp continued, “And, I simply bear in mind in that second he mentioned precisely what I wanted him to say. He is like, ‘We’ll throw one other one.'”

The “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum shared how her coronary heart was damaged as a result of she could not be there for Dove’s birthday.

Combating again tears, she mentioned, “However, like my coronary heart broke as a result of I ponder like will she do not forget that I wasn’t there.”

Earlier within the interview, Mellencamp dished on her and Arroyave’s divorce plans.

She shared that her estranged husband “has been nice” amid her well being struggles earlier than including, “I imply we’re nonetheless getting a divorce. We’re simply not, we put a maintain on it like the very last thing I want is that stress.

Mellencamp continued, “We’re good mother and father collectively. We’ve got a variety of laughs and like I’ve needed to say to him a few occasions like, ‘I do not want you. I am going by way of this and all I want for you is to be my buddy.'”

The 43-year-old defined that Arroyave often struggled to cope with such phrases however can be extra understanding and see her viewpoint after interested by it.

Mellencamp’s interview comes two weeks after Arroyave opened up about how they instructed their children about her heartbreaking prognosis.

In the course of the April 3 episode of “The Eds” podcast, the daddy of 4 mentioned he and Mellencamp determined to be sincere with their children in regards to the state of affairs.

He mentioned per PEOPLE Magazine, “I might keep at house and ensure they had been assured and once more be sure that they knew that and I used to be upfront with them [about] what was occurring.”

Arroyave mentioned the children had been “scared” and “involved,” however he tried his “finest to once more not sugarcoat it an excessive amount of.”

He defined, “I referred to as it the way in which it was. It is like, ‘Hey, there’s some tumors that your mother has in her mind.’ And I mentioned, ‘It sounds worse than what it’s, however that is what I believe is, that is what we predict goes to occur.”

Arroyave additionally instructed his children, ‘”That is kind of how we will cope with it, and this is the reason I am assured that she’s going to make it by way of.'”