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John Mellencamp says he’s doing every thing he can to assist daughter Teddi amid her treatment for stage 4 cancer.
The 74-year-old rocker stated he’s speaking to the “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum “daily” as “she’s been going by way of hell the final yr.”
“She has 10 lesions in her mind … regardless that the lesions should not cancerous proper now, they nonetheless interrupt her considering, and it’s in her frontal lobe,” he instructed Individuals in a new interview published Saturday.
Teddi was capable of have some lesions eliminated, however she’s nonetheless present process radiation remedy for those who stay.
“The lesions are nonetheless there, however the most cancers’s not,” John defined. “However that doesn’t imply she’s dwelling free; it simply means proper now there’s no most cancers. So she has to maintain on this therapy for who is aware of what number of years.”
Teddi stated one thing related on the Oct. 3 episode of her and Tamra Decide’s podcast, “Two Ts in a Pod,” when she revealed that regardless of having “no detectable most cancers” anymore, she would proceed immunotherapy for not less than a yr.
John additional instructed Those who Teddi’s “persona has modified” all through her most cancers battle as a result of issues and unintended effects. “She’s nonetheless the identical particular person, however she’s not the identical particular person. It’s not enjoyable.”
John’s new reveal comes someday after he publicly urged Teddi to move “back home.”
The singer instructed “At the moment” present viewers Friday that he’s “strive[ing] to speak her into” relocating from Los Angeles to Indiana, although the Bravolebrity, 44, “gained’t do it.”
Whereas chatting with Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer and Craig Melvin, John additionally issued a worrying replace on Teddi’s well being, saying, “You cant say you’re cancer-free with the kind of most cancers she’s received for 3 years.”
“She feels good till she takes that [immunotherapy] after which she seems like hell for about 4 days, after which she feels regular.”
Earlier within the week, John additional opened up on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” and stated Teddi’s “actually sick.”
She’s “suffering” and “it’s not f–king enjoyable,” he added.
After the interview, Teddi confirmed on her personal podcast Thursday that she is indeed “struggling with large PTSD.”
Teddi was initially diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma in 2022 and underwent more than 15 surgeries battling the illness.
She then underwent emergency surgery in February 2025 when a number of tumors have been discovered in her brain.
On the time, Teddi was given a 50 percent chance of survival, and her dad began planning her burial.
By that October, nevertheless, Teddi’s stage 4 cancer, which had additionally unfold to her lungs, was “gone.”
“I’m not thought-about in remission or something like that,” Teddi clarified to podcast listeners on the time. “The best way the [doctors] stated it really works, it’s like one yr, then two years, then at three years you’re allowed to be thought-about … in remission.”