Teddi Mellencamp Clarifies John Mellencamp's Comments on Her

“I also didn't properly process all of the things that happened when I had surgery,” the Bravo star—who announced her divorce from Edwin Arroyave in November 2024—continued. “From my divorce, to all of a sudden being in emergency surgery, to not being able to see my kids when I was recovering.”

She added, “All of those things are starting to finally hit me now. I started doing therapy, and so it's taken its toll on me.”

Plus, Teddi—who shares kids Slate, 13, Cruz, 11, and Dove, 5 with Edwin—is learning to accept her physical limitations as a result of her brain surgery and immunotherapy, which she said make her “exhausted.”

“It's hard for me to touch and move, and I can see that I'm slower than I was before, and that's really frustrating to me,” she explained. “I want to be back to the way I used to be.”

And now that “the storm has calmed a little bit” and her focus isn’t on “fighting for my life,” Teddi admitted that unexpected worries are starting to surface.

"I'm starting to develop fear where I didn't have fear before,” she said, noting she has yet to “take an Uber alone” since October. “I have fear to do a lot of things.”

But while Teddi’s biggest fear is “that cancer is going to come back,” she is trying to lean into her optimism. As she put it, "Every day is a new day."

Read on to look back at Teddi through the years, including her sweetest family photos.

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