Teddi Mellencamp is setting the record straight on her cancer battle.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 44, insisted that her cancer has not returned despite her dad, John Mellencamp, saying she was “really sick” and “suffering.”
“It’s not f—ing fun,” John said of his daughter’s journey in his Jan. 14 appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “She’s got cancer in the brain, and she’s suffering right now.”
On Wednesday’s episode of her and Tamra Judge’s “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast, however, Teddi said, “You know, I think when he said the words ‘suffering,’ he meant like, how I’m mentally doing versus how I’m physically doing.”
“Instantly people thought, ‘Oh my God, cancer’s back,’” Judge, 58, said.
“No, there’s still no trace of cancer. But I’m still considered stage four and I’m still in immunotherapy, so essentially nothing’s changed other than I still — I don’t feel great … I would hope that I would be feeling better by now, but I really don’t,” Teddi clarified.
The Bravoleb went on to explain that she’s since started going to therapy to address the part of her “suffering” that stemmed from not having “properly” processed “all of the things that happened when I had surgery, like from my divorce [from her estranged husband Edwin Arroyave] to all of a sudden being in emergency surgery, to you know, not being able to see my kids when I was recovering.”
“I think all of those things are starting to finally hit me now. I started doing therapy, and so it’s taken its toll on me,” she added.
As she continues her immunotherapy, Teddi shared that she’s struggling with being able to “touch and move.”
“I can see that I’m slower than I was before, and that’s really frustrating to me. Like I want to be back to the way I used to be,” she reflected.
“I was really fighting for my life … now that the storm has calmed a little, now I’m starting to develop fear where I didn’t have fear before. Like I have fear to do a lot of things,” she shared, before admitting she’s scared “that cancer is going to come back.”
The reality TV star came forward with her stage 2 melanoma diagnosis in October 2022. She underwent more than a dozen surgeries to address the disease — including an emergency procedure in 2025 to remove several tumors in her brain.
Last October, Teddi shared that her cancer — which had also spread to her lungs — was gone.
Still, she said she’s not considered to be “in remission” yet. But, she started undergoing immunotherapy, which Arroyave said is “really hard on her mental health.”
“I’m not considered in remission or anything like that,” she said on her podcast at the time. “The way the [doctors] said it works, it’s like one year, then two years, then at three years you’re allowed to be considered … in remission.”
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