Former Bravo star Teddi Mellencamp shared a positive health update amid her battle with brain cancer.
“You know, I kind of ride the wave,” she told People at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 26 of how she deals with the mental toll of her treatment
Teddi Mellencamp’s Cancer Update
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum said she’s “actually doing well” amid her ongoing treatment for stage 4 cancer.
“I had immunotherapy two weeks ago, and then I have my next one in two weeks, so things are moving along nicely,” Mellencamp told the outlet.
Mellencamp—who shares kids Slate, Cruz and Dove, with ex-husband Edwin Arroyave—thanked her father, iconic singer John Cougar Mellencamp, for saving her life.
“For me, ‘Longest Days’ has been the song that means the most,” Teddi began. “In it he sings, ‘But nothing lasts forever / Your best efforts don’t always pay / Sometimes when you get sick and you don’t get better / That’s when life is short, even in its longest days.'”
“It was a little over a year ago when I got sick — my life felt short even when the days in the hospital seemed to go on forever. Sometimes you get sick and you don’t get better,” she said on stage while presenting the “Jack and Diane” artist with the iHeartRadio Music Icon Award. “He wasn’t going to let that lyric define my life. He stepped up, took control, fought for me and pretty much changed my life, saved my life. A man I get to call dad, and my best friend.”
Teddi Mellencamp’s Cancer Diagnosis
Mellencamp was first diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in 2022. Three years later, she revealed that the cancer had metastasized to her lungs and brain.
“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,'” she told Us Weekly in April 2025.
Six months later, during an October 2025 episode of her “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast, Mellencamp revealed, “Just to give a little life update to you guys, I had my immunotherapy yesterday, and I did my scans, and at this point there is no detectable cancer.”
