"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alumni Teddi Mellencamp revealed her father, singer John Mellencamp, has started planning her burial amid her stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Mellencamp opened up on Tuesday’s episode of her podcast, "Two T’s In A Pod," hosted with Tamra Judge of "The Real Housewives of Orange County."
"Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row … he goes, 'I just want to make sure that you're going to be in our group family mausoleum,'" Mellencamp said, noting the mausoleum is in Indiana.
"I said, 'I have kids, so where are they going to go?' 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,'" she explained. "I said, 'Do I need to make this commitment right now?' And he said, 'Well, you're doing your will right now so you may as well put it in there.'"
Teddi Mellencamp, 43, shares three kids with her husband, Edwin Arroyave, whom she filed for divorce from in November.
Mellencamp announced earlier this month that her skin cancer had reached Stage 4. She said doctors found tumors on her lungs and brain that required surgical intervention this year.
“They found four or five more tumors in my brain, and then I have two in my lungs, one in each side. But the radiation does nothing for the lungs. That’s solely for the brain,” Mellencamp explained on the Tuesday episode.
Mellencamp said her father has been calling her often, and the talk about burial preparations came after she expressed that she was annoyed about an Instagram user saying she was on a "death walk."
She recalled telling her father, "This is a reminder, I don't want to be a vegetable. I'm good to fight, fight, fight." He in turn responded, "I'm going to be in charge of that!"
“Either way I think I agreed to be in the mausoleum," Mellencamp said. She joked on the show that she would have "hot girls never die" engraved on her tomb.
The podcast host shared photos on Instagram Wednesday showing the difference in her hair over the course of four months. One side showed her hair long and the second her hair cropped short with the back of her head shaved.
“Sometimes I am so focused on ‘being strong’ that I forget I am allowed to be sad, cry it out, and feel very alone. I love my kids, friends, and family so much and am forever grateful to them but dang today is one of those days,” she wrote. “If you are having a day where you can’t wait for it to be bedtime so you can start over tomorrow leave me a ❤️ We are not alone.”Back in February, Mellencamp told fans that she required emergency brain surgery after scans uncovered multiple tumors. She later said that the melanoma she was diagnosed with in 2022 had metastasized.
She’s been vocal about her treatment, saying she’s receiving radiation and immunotherapy.