Yeah, I think joking about how “hot girls never die” is probably a good indicator that a conversation isn’t that serious…
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, and daughter of legendary rocker John Mellencamp, recently went through surgery to remove brain tumors, after previously having 17 different spots of melanoma removed. Doctors found multiple tumors in her brain and lungs, and Teddi has been very open about all of it on social media:
“I have 3 more tumors in my brain and 2 tumors on my lungs. These are all a direct result of my melanoma.”
She is a mom of three kids, and is currently hosting a podcast with fellow former Housewives star Tamra Judge called Two T’s In A Pod, and she got very candid in an episode today talking about doing her will and making plans for her funeral, should her family need to have one. I imagine as a mom of three pretty young kids, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10 and Dove, 5, that’s gotta be extremely difficult, so her openness about everything, considering how scared she must be and awful she must feel, is admirable.
And her dad, John, has been helping her make those plans, and Teddi said he called her “11 times in a row” yesterday to make sure she was going to be buried a their family mausoleum, and she wanted to make sure there was enough room for her kids (Teddi is currently going through a divorce):
“Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row. Finally, I answer, I’m like, ‘I’m in the bath. Let me live a little.’ He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum. He’s like, ‘Well, there’s going to be the top five and then we’re gonna have little areas around it, and then that’s where everyone’s going to get buried. You’re doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.'”
Tamra asked if she’d seen it yet, and Teddi told her that she agreed to her father’s request to travel to Indiana to visit her grave, though she kept her sense of humor in joking that she would have “hot girls never die” written on her tombstone.
But Teddi shred on Instagram stories that it’s all coming from a good place, and while multiple headlines have indicated that her father was “planning her funeral,” that was a very twisted way of putting it, and she doesn’t feel like outlets are representing the conversations correctly, saying:
“I need to clarify that this was a lighthearted conversation, laughing the whole time. I am personally doing well right now, and yes, having to deal with things I wouldn’t otherwise, but the way this is being portrayed isn’t accurate. Do you think wanting ‘Hot girls never die’ on my mausoleum is the result of a sad conversation… I appreciate helping to share my story, but I would love for the headlines to be indicative of what really happened.”
I get that they wanna get the clicks, but twisting something like this is just a bridge too far…
In an interview with US Weekly last week, Teddi said that she is “fighting for my life,’ and that this is obviously the “hardest thing” she’s ever gone through:
“This is definitely the hardest thing [I’ve faced in my life], but now it feels less hard. When I was in the ICU, it was incredibly difficult because I had no memory. One day, I realized it was my daughter’s birthday, and I couldn’t be there for it; it was really sad. It’s still sad when I can’t be there for my kids the way I’d normally be.
I was not expecting my entire family to be out here within 24 hours, but by the time I was out of surgery, everybody was there. My dad hates LA, so the fact that he was out here for 18 days — wow. That says a lot.”
She also told them that, as you can imagine based on the previous story, her dad calls her every day to check on her and give her a “pep talk”:
“He calls every day to check on me. Some days, I’m not in the mood, I don’t want a pep talk. [I tell him], ‘I’ll talk to you tomorrow, I’ll be more pep talk-ready, but I love you.’”
Mellencamp is obviously a legendary musician, but he sounds like a good dad, too.
