Cancer is ‘my payback': Teddi Mellencamp breaks silence on affair with horse trainer
Teddi Mellencamp fears her cancer is payback for the hurt she caused other people.
The reality TV star split from her husband Edwin Arroyave - the father of her kids Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5, - shortly before she was told her stage four melanoma had spread to
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