Teddi Mellencamp Vulnerably Reveals Heartbreaking Cancer Update

Teddi Mellencamp is sharing a devastating update in her stage 4 cancer battle. “We’re going to take a little break on the immunotherapy to get my body back feeling stronger,” she revealed on the July 23 episode of her podcast “Two Ts in a Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge.”

Mellencamp explained that the side effects of her cancer treatment were making her too sick, and so she made the choice to pause them. “Essentially, I haven’t been feeling good for about a month, which was kind of shocking to me, and I think, mentally did a lot to me,” she shared.

While the cancer treatment was causing extreme fatigue and made it hard for Mellencamp to “keep her words straight,” there was some good news. The “RHOBH” alum said that scans showed her tumors had shrunk to the point of being “barely visible.”

Mellencamp’s Divorce Is On Pause Too

Amid her brave cancer battle, Teddi Mellencamp has also been dealing with her split from husband Edwin Arroyave. However, while she faces her serious health issues, divorce proceedings have been temporarily halted.

According to Mellencamp, there was no other choice, as immunotherapy made her unable to complete even the simplest tasks. “I’ve never in my adult life been in a situation where I’m like, ‘Gosh, I can’t do this right now,'” she shared. “I can’t stay up that extra hour and put my kid to bed tonight, I can’t go to my daughter’s horse show, or oh my gosh, I’m going to have to miss Cruz’s practice.

She continued, “I’ve never once felt that way until recently, and it’s heartbreaking.” Mellencamp is the mother of three children, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5.

Mellencamp Recently Called Out Her Doctors

Teddi Mellencamp’s latest update follows her reveal that her doctors didn’t catch her cancer soon enough. She felt that she should’ve undergone scans earlier when diagnosed with stage 1 melanoma on her shoulder.

“I never really thought about it because I was like, ‘I go to a doctor every three months. Why wouldn’t they get me checked?’” Mellencamp shared with Glamour.

She continued, “When I finally followed up on it, they were like, ‘We didn’t do the scans, because you didn’t have anything above a stage one on your body.’ But look what happened.”

In April, Mellencamp shared the heartbreaking news that her cancer had spread to her brain and her lungs, with scans showing 3 more tumors. “I am feeling positive and excited— that I will beat these tumors,” she said at the time via an Instagram story.