Teddi Mellencamp on Dad John Mellencamp’s “Really Sick” Cancer Comment

“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.”