Teddi Mellencamp’s estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, wants the singer to “focus on the positives” during her battle with cancer, but he also wants her to shine a light on the worst parts of her health battle.
“One of the hardest things for her is that she can’t really exercise,” the businesswoman explained to listeners of her podcast “The Ed’s” on Monday, noting that her ex-boyfriend is “just starting to move out” again.
“She’s on immunotherapy, but that alone causes side effects,” the 48-year-old added. “It was very tough on her mental health.”
He said Mellencamp’s “internal battle…one of the toughest battles” she has had to fight since her cancer diagnosis in October 2022.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 44, had stage 2 melanoma at the time, but last year her cancer progressed to stage 4 and spread to her brain and lungs.
The reality star underwent emergency brain surgery and radiation therapy in February 2025, and eight months later celebrated being “free of detectable cancer” in her body.
Arroyabe reminded fans of this on Monday, enthusing: “As far as the eye can see, the tumor is gone. There was a 0.001 percent chance of it happening. So it was an absolute miracle of God.”
He “constantly” reiterates to Mellencamp these “positive” and “big” wins so that she “doesn’t focus on the negatives” instead.
The CEO of Skyline Security Management, who split from Teddy in 2024 after 13 years of marriage, said his ex-partner was “doing great things” and should “congratulate himself.”
Arroyave’s update comes on the heels of the Bravolebrity’s father, John Mellencamp, admitting on the podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” that he is “struggling.”
Last week, the 74-year-old singer said: “She’s really sick. … It’s not very fun.”
He further emphasized this in an interview on Friday’s “Today” show, telling viewers, “I feel good until I get it (immunotherapy), and then I feel like hell for about four days.”
John went on to say that Teddy turned down his request to move back to Indiana from Los Angeles.
In a subsequent interview with People magazine, John revealed that Teddy has “10 lesions[on her frontal lobe]…They’re not cancerous at this point,[but]they’re still interfering with her thinking.”
The accountability coach gave “Two T in the Pod” listeners an update on herself Thursday, explaining the “severe PTSD” she has “from everything that’s happened.”
