Teddi Mellencamp Shares Emotional Response to Fan Who Says Her Cancer Is Terminal
Teddi Mellencamp’s loved ones are thinking about her future.
The 43-year-old—who has faced her increasingly fraught cancer journey with dry wit and dark humor—recounted a recent conversation with her father John Mellencamp in which she shared he’s thinking about her burial.
“Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row,” Teddi told friend and cohost Tamra Judge during the April 9 episode of their Two Ts in a Pod podcast. “Finally, I answer, I’m like, ‘I’m in the bath. Let me live a little. Like let me enjoy.’ He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum.’”
In response, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hils alum—who shares kids Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5, with ex-husband Edwin Arroyave—asked him whether there would be room for her kids.
“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, noting she asked her dad when she’d need to decide. “He goes, ‘Well you’re doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.’”
