Teddi Mellencamp ‘in denial’ about cancer, family wants ‘hard conversations’

Teddi Melllenocamp finally emerged from the healthy side of a tortuous battle and several years against cancer. But that does not mean that she is ready to talk about it.

“I think it’s really difficult to be in a place where I am in a way in denial where I am physically. And when the others are not in denial, it’s difficult”, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills The old admitted in the episode of Monday of Two TS in a podThe podcast that she cohosts with her County Orange Housewives Comrade Tamra judge.

MellenoCamp was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma in 2022, which launched three exhausting years of tests and treatments as the disease spread through its system. At one point, the television star and the daughter of the musician John Mellencamp received 50/50 to survive, but in April, she enthusiastically shared that her brain tumors “were considerably reduced, which, according to the doctors, means that all this will work, and I will be back to myself and I feel good”.

Now in recovery mode, Mellencamp told Judge: “My family wants to have difficult conversations, and I do not … they want to talk about things like the future, or medically, exactly how I do, and I don’t want to talk about it.”

“You don’t want to talk to it with anyone,” added Judge. Although the two did not appear together on a bravo series, they knocked out close friendship after meeting by chance in a mission church, in California, in 2018. The two launched Two TS in a pod In 2021, a year after Bravo dismissed the judge Rhoc And let mellenocamp start from Rhobh.

“I don’t want to talk about it with you either,” joked Mellencamp. The judge has revealed that as regards Mellencamp’s health updates, “I have to withdraw it from you … It’s like, I know that when you don’t feel good, it’s when you are not publishing on Instagram.”

Mellencamp kept fans in a loop in her cancer journey mainly via Instagram, where she shared live updates from the offices of her doctors and photos of knotty surgery scars. But for the moment, she prefers to deposit the “difficult conversations” really.

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In June, Mellencamp shared Two TS in a pod That his immunotherapy treatments have been so successful in repelling the growth of his tumors that he is not planned to stop them.

“It is stadium 4 until it has gone, until I am in remission,” she said, indicating that her doctors plan that she remains in immunotherapy for at least two more years.

You can listen to the rest of the MellenoCamp and Judge conversation on Two TS in a pod above.