Teddi Mellencamp Says Her Dad John Is Already Planning Her Burial amid Most cancers Journey

Teddi Mellencamp says her dad, rocker John Mellencamp, has already began planning her burial amid her most cancers journey.

Days after confirming that her most cancers is now stage 4, the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 43, opened up about having a morbid dialog with the “Jack and Diane” singer, 73, on the newest episode of her Two T’s In A Pod podcast.

“Yesterday my dad calls 11 instances in a row. Lastly, I reply, I am like, ‘I am within the tub. Let me reside just a little.’ He goes, ‘I simply wish to be sure you’re going to be in our group household mausoleum,’ ” Teddi recalled.

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Teddi stated she requested her father if there could be sufficient house within the mausoleum for her three children — Slate, 12, Cruz, 10 and Dove, 5 — whom she shares together with her estranged husband Edwin Arroyave. She filed for divorce from Arroyave, 47, in November 2024, previous to her stage 4 analysis.

“He’s like, ‘Nicely, there’s going to be the highest 5 after which we’re gonna have little areas round it, after which that is the place everybody’s going to get buried,’ ” Teddi stated.

After asking if she already wanted to make the choice, she stated her father informed her, “You are doing all your will proper now, so chances are you’ll as properly put it in there.”

Teddi seemingly agreed with John’s request as she informed her co-host Tamra Decide that she must journey to Indiana to go to her grave. She joked that she would have “sizzling ladies by no means die” engraved on the tombstone.

In a March well being replace, Teddi stated extra tumors had been present in her mind and lungs.

“I’ve 3 extra tumors in my mind and a couple of tumors on my lungs. These are all a direct results of my melanoma,” she shared on Instagram on Thursday, March 6. Over the previous two years, she had 17 totally different spots of melanoma eliminated.

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The replace got here almost a month after she first introduced on Feb. 12 that docs discovered a number of tumors on her mind after she was fighting “extreme and debilitating complications” for a number of weeks.  On the time, 4 massive tumors had been eliminated as a substitute of two.