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Teddi Mellencamp faces serious challenges after the last setback in his cancer fight.
“I am fighting for my life,” said Mellencamp, the 43 -year -old daughter of singer John Mellencamp, to Us Weekly in an article published on Wednesday. “But also for the life of my family and all the people I love.”
“It seems to me with certainty exactly where we are on June 1,” Mellencamp said about his treatment plan, since his cancer has now progressed to stage 4. “If you need to make another round, if there is any other surgery, if it is the end. It is a pill difficult to swallow.”
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The mother of three and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, the star of reality began to openly share her battle with melanoma in 2022, after her initial diagnosis.
After undergoing multiple surgeries to eliminate cancer spots, their condition intensified in early 2025 when doctors discovered that their melanoma had metastasis in their lungs and brain.
And although they always told their children “the moms always return” when he has to leave the house, he told Us Weekly that “he has not told them that line since I returned [from the hospital]. ”
“Everyone knows that I am fighting the hardest I can, but I have not said [it] Because I don’t want to lie to them. And I don’t know, ”he said.
Currently, his children are in therapy, since he said that “he is not equipped to handle it completely.”
“He is helping me questions to those who would probably have not thought about answering them,” he said about his children, Slate, 12; Cruz, 10 and Dove, 5.
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He also discovered that sarcasm is helping her deal with the possibility of her own death.
“Everyone wants it to be super positive,” he said. “One of my coping mechanisms is to be sarcastic. I prefer to joke about that and have the best possible result than being completely denial and that they break my heart.”
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Mellencamp thought previously that he was cancer free in 2022, after eliminating multiple melanomas.
However, he continued to develop more melanomas and in 2025, his condition worsened when doctors discovered tumors in his brain and lungs.
A few days after his initial sitting with Us Weekly, Mellencamp revealed that an emergency magnetic resonance located four additional small tumors in his brain. She continues radiation and immunotherapy treatment.