Teddi Mellencamp is having difficult conversations with the family that come with advanced cancer stages.
After the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star confirmed that his diagnosis had advanced in melanoma at stage 4 earlier this month, he revealed in his podcast, Two Ts in a capsuleWho has begun to have devastating conversations with his family about the future, including his father, singer John Mellencamp.
“Yesterday, my dad calls eleven times in a row. I finally answer, and I say:” I’m in the bathroom! Let me live a little, “he said.” He says, “I just want to make sure you’ll be in the mausoleum of our group family.”
Teddi asked if there would be space in the mausoleum, which is in Indiana, for his children too. Mellencamp has three children: Slate, 12, Cruz, 10 and Dove, 5.
“I said:” I have children, so where are they going to go? “She recalled.
John explained that it would be space for everyone. “He says:” Well, there will be the first five and then we will have small areas around him, and then where everyone will be buried, “Teddi said.
Then, as his father asked if he had to commit at that time, which led him to say: “You are doing your will right now, so you could also put it there.”
This was true, as Mellencamp said in an interview with Us Weekly Earlier this month, I was thinking about practical logistics as its will.
“Well, a small PSA: get early life insurance,” he told The Outlet. “And do your will. Doing all those things once you have already diagnosed with cancer is not a dream. That is really difficult. I hope you never get sick, but do it before you get sick.”
Mellencamp later argued in the interview how his cancer trip has been. “This is definitely the most difficult [I’ve faced in my life]But now it feels less hard, “he said.” When I was in the ICU, it was incredible difficult because I had no memory. One day, I realized that it was my daughter’s birthday, and I could be there for it; It was really sad. It’s still sad when I can’t be there for my children as I would normally be. “
It is beautiful to see that a public figure like Mellencamp is so open and honest about the process of dealing with something as hard as this.
Mellencamp Tok to his Instagram recently, where he wrote: “Sometimes I am so focused on ‘Being strong’ that I forget that I am allowed to be sad, cry and feel very alone. I love my children, friends and family deposits or days forever.”
We are sending all the love to Teddi and the duration of the family at this difficult time.
