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John Mellencamp spoke about his daughter Teddi’s well being on The Joe Rogan Expertise podcast this week.
The “Jack & Diane” singer, 74, stated his daughter is “actually sick” and “struggling proper now” amid her stage 4 most cancers prognosis.
It’s an alarming replace after the previous Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 44, advised followers her most cancers was “gone” in October final 12 months.
“It’s not f***ing enjoyable,” John stated of Teddi’s situation. “She’s obtained most cancers within the mind, and she or he’s struggling proper now.”
It comes after Teddi advised Actual Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania on her Two T’s in a Pod podcast that she had “no detectable most cancers” in October.
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“Once they advised me, I used to be in such shock. I used to be like, numb,” she stated.
She added that she’s going to stay on immunotherapy therapies for an additional 12 months. “I’m nonetheless going to be having days once I’m feeling sick and stuff as a result of I nonetheless am in immunotherapy, so I am nonetheless preventing as a result of you need to be,” she defined.
“I’m not thought-about in remission or something like that,” Teddi famous. “The way in which the [doctors] stated 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, however that was big information yesterday.”
Teddi was identified with melanoma in 2022. Her situation superior to stage 4 in February 2025 and metastasized to her lungs and mind. She then underwent main mind surgical procedure that eliminated 4 tumors.
Earlier final 12 months, she hit again at criticism about her courting somebody new and fostering a canine, amid her most cancers prognosis.
“So individuals have been coming for me about fostering a canine, they usually’ve been coming for me for courting,” she stated on her podcast. “Like, ‘The one factor she must be nervous about proper now are her children and staying alive.’’
She continued: “If I wish to put myself in a state of affairs the place I’m staying busy so I’m not getting depressed, why have an issue with that? Clearly, I’m not happening dates whereas my children are like sitting right here trying up, ready to hang around with me.
“[My doctor said] ‘I actually don’t need you to consider your most cancers as terminal. Simply because that occurred to any individual’s buddy, aunt, brother, or cousin doesn’t imply that’s what’s taking place to you. You don’t have to suppose like that. You have to be going and having enjoyable and making an attempt to snicker,’” she stated.
John was married to Priscilla Esterline from 1970 to 1981 and to Victoria Granucci from 1981 to 1989, with whom he shares 5 youngsters, together with Teddi.
He started courting When Harry Met Sally… actor Meg Ryan in 2011; the couple break up in 2014, reconciled in 2017, turned engaged in 2018, and separated for good in 2019.
Teddi, in the meantime, shares three youngsters together with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave: daughters Slate, 12, and Dove, 11, and son Cruz, 5.
