Teddi Mellencamp is “actually sick” – months after she revealed her most cancers had grow to be “undetectable”.
Teddi Mellencamp is battling stage 4 melanoma
The 44-year-old TV persona’s dad, singer John Mellencamp, shared the “struggling” his daughter is at the moment experiencing as she continues her battle with stage 4 melanoma – a critical sort of pores and skin most cancers.
Showing on a current episode of the Joe Rogan Expertise, John, 74, mentioned: “I do have a daughter that is actually sick. She’s not f****** advantageous. She’s obtained most cancers within the mind. And she or he’s struggling proper now.”
Teddi was recognized with stage two melanoma in 2022, and revealed in April 2025 that the most cancers was at stage 4 after the illness metastasised to her lungs and mind, leading to her having a 50-50 likelihood of survival.
In October 2025, The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum – who has had 17 melanoma spots, in addition to 4 mind tumours, eliminated, and has efficiently had immunotherapy, ensuing within the growths to “considerably” shrink – revealed that checks confirmed her most cancers was “undetectable”.
Teddi advised the iHeartRadio podcast Two T’s in a Pod: “Simply to offer a bit of life replace to you guys, I had my immunotherapy yesterday, they usually did my scans, and at this level, there isn’t a detectable most cancers.
“I nonetheless must be on immunotherapy for an additional 12 months, and I am not thought-about in remission or something like that.
“After they advised me, I used to be in such shock, I used to be numb. So I am nonetheless going to be having days once I’m feeling sick and stuff as a result of I’m nonetheless in immunotherapy, so I am nonetheless combating as a result of you must be.
“The best way they (medical doctors) mentioned it really works, it is like one 12 months, then two years, then at three years you are allowed to be thought-about… in remission. So, that was big information yesterday.
“All of the tumours continued to shrink and all the pieces. It has been good. It is a good day.”
Teddi – who has daughters Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, in addition to son Cruz, 11, from her marriage to estranged 48-year-old husband, TV persona Edwin Arroyave – then shared that it’s her eldest youngster who understands her heartbreaking well being ordeal.
The star – who has documented her remedy and restoration together with her followers on-line, and has urged them to get their yearly checks – mentioned: “It is simply Slate that basically understands.
“Folks assume simply because the most cancers’s gone, that I can not nonetheless get sick or no matter, however I am nonetheless in remedy.”
