Teddi Mellencamp is setting records in his battle with cancer.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 44, insisted her cancer has not returned, even though her father, John Mellencamp, said he is “really sick” and “suffering.”
John appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on January 14 and said of his daughter’s journey, “It’s not fun at all.” “She has cancer in her brain and is suffering right now.”
But on Wednesday’s episode of her and Tamra Judge’s “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast, Teddi said: “You know, when he said the word ‘suffering,’ I think he meant something like how I’m doing mentally or how I’m doing physically.”
“Immediately people thought, ‘Oh my god, the cancer is back,'” said the 58-year-old judge.
“No, there’s no evidence of cancer yet. But I’m still considered stage 4, and I’m on immunotherapy. So basically, nothing has changed yet. I don’t feel well… I wish I was feeling better by now, but I’m not,” Teddy clarified.
Bravolev went on to explain that she started going to therapy to deal with some of the “suffering” caused by not handling “properly” “everything that happened when I had surgery, from my divorce[from estranged husband Edwin Arroyave]to sudden emergency surgery, you know, not being able to see my kids while I was recovering.”
“I think now all those things are finally starting to hit me. I started therapy, so that took a toll on me,” she added.
Teddy, who continues to receive immunotherapy, said he was having trouble “touching and moving.”
“I find myself slower than before, and that’s really frustrating for me. I want to go back to where I was before,” she reflected.
“I was really fighting for my life…Now that the storm has calmed down a little bit, I’m starting to feel fear in places I didn’t feel fear before. Like there’s fear in doing a lot of things,” she shared, later admitting that she was scared “that the cancer was going to come back.”
The reality TV star came forward with a stage 2 melanoma diagnosis in October 2022. She underwent more than a dozen surgeries to deal with the disease, including an emergency surgery in 2025 to remove several tumors in her brain.
Last October, Teddy said his cancer, which had spread to his lungs, was gone.
Still, she said she is not considered to be in “remission” yet. But she started receiving immunotherapy, which Arroyave said was “very tough on her mental health.”
“I’m not considered to be in remission or anything like that,” she said on the podcast at the time. “When (doctors) say it works, it’s like after a year, two years, three years it’s considered remission.”
