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USA Today
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Teddi Mellencamp says famous father John Mellencamp planning her burial amid cancer battle
Teddi Mellencamp says famous father John Mellencamp planning her burial amid cancer battle Show Caption Hide Caption Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun,' 'Batman Forever' star, dies at 65 Val Kilmer portrayed larger-than-life characters, such as Jim Morrison, Doc Holliday and Batman, throughout his prolific acting career. Teddi Mellencamp says famous father John Mellencamp is planning her burial amid her stage 4 skin cancer battle. The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alum opened up about her "Jack & Diane" singer's plans, after her melanoma metastisized, on Tuesday's episode of her "Two T's In A Pod" podcast with co-host Tamra Judge. "Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row. Finally, I answer, I'm like, 'I'm in the bath. Let me live a little.' He goes, 'I just want to make sure you're going to be in our group family mausoleum,'" the reality TV star recalled, to which Judge replied, "John, no!" During the episode, Mellencamp also shared that "the Cougs makes me talk to him more than he's ever made me talk to him," referring to her dad's former stage name John Cougar. Teddi Mellencamp reveals stage 4 cancer spread with new tumors The former "Celebrity Big Brother" houseguest told Judge she asked the music legend if there would be room in the family's mausoleum in Indiana for her three kids — 12-year-old Slate, 10-year-old Cruz and Dove, 5 — whom she shares with husband Edwin "Eddie" Arroyave. Mellencamp and the home security entrepreneur have hit pause on their pending divorce during her cancer treatment. "He's like, 'Well, there's going to be the top five and then we're going to have little areas around it, and then that's where everyone's going to get buried,'" Mellencamp said, later revealing that her dad told her "you're doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there." We've got Hollywood covered: Sign up for up for USA TODAY's Entertainment newsletter. In her signature sarcasm, Mellencamp told Judge that the "Real Housewives of Orange County" star would have to travel to Indiana to visit her grave site, adding that "hot girls never die" would be on her tombstone. Teddi Mellencamp stage 4 cancer metastasizes Mellencamp's burial comments come after a significant update in her health journey shared last week. In an Us Weekly interview published April 2, Mellencamp announced that her stage 4 cancer metastasized, and doctors found four new tumors after the melanoma spread to her brain and lungs. "There are some days (where) I think you're allowed to say, 'I don't feel confident right now, I feel very uncomfortable and I want to wear a wig.' And there are some days that I'm like, 'It is what it is.' Some days, I'm really sad and really scared, and some days, I'm like, 'I got this; I'm not worried,'" Mellencamp told the magazine. Teddi Mellencamp has numerous brain tumors, will undergo emergency surgery "I'm fighting for my life, but also for my family's life and all the people I love," Mellencamp added. Earlier this year, Mellencamp revealed she underwent emergency surgery after several tumors were found on her brain. The podcaster has long been open about her health on her hit iHeartMedia podcast "Two Ts." The former Real Housewife first revealed the news in a statement shared to Instagram on Feb. 12.
South China Morning Post
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet rock star John Mellencamp's 5 children: son Hud starred on Claim to Fame, daughter Teddi was on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – and all are the apples of the ‘Wild Night' singer's eye
John Mellencamp, the man behind hits including 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good', has built his legacy on heartland rock. But nothing matters more to him than family. 'I've never cared about my image – just about my family, my kids,' Mellencamp told People in 2017. Meet his five children, the eldest of whom he had while still a teenager. Michelle Mellencamp Michelle Mellencamp (centre) is John Mellencamp's eldest child. Photo: @michellemellencamp14/Instagram Advertisement Even before he shot to stardom, Mellencamp's life was far from typical: he became a father at just 19. Fresh out of high school, he eloped with his pregnant girlfriend, Priscilla Esterline; and on December 4, 1970, they welcomed their first child, Michelle. Like her father, Michelle became a parent young, giving birth to her daughter Elexis at 18. 'I've been a grandfather for so long it's as normal to me as being a man,' Mellencamp told People in 2000. 'I swear in front of the kids and playing in a rock band is probably not very grandfatherly.' Michelle had her son Colin in 1994, followed by daughters Hannah in 1996 and Grace in 1998. Teddi Mellencamp Teddi Mellencamp is a former reality TV star. Photo: @teddimellencamp/Instagram Eleven years after Michelle was born, Mellencamp married actress Victoria Granucci and welcomed his second daughter, Teddi Jo.
