Rock legend’s daughter fighting stage 4 cancer gets miraculous news – PennLive.com
2025-04-24T09:05:00Z
The 43-year-old shared the news on social media.
Teddi Mellencamp has been sharing her battle against stage 4 cancer that has spread to her brain and lungs with her fans and followers across social media.
And it really has been a heartbreaking thing to watch from the original diagnosis to the revelation that brain surgery didn’t get all of the disease, to her discussing making end of life plans and her fear of leaving her young children behind.
But Wednesday brought a beautiful and downright miraculous update from the 43-year-old daughter or rock legend John Mellencamp.
“Really exciting news everyone,” she said in a video shared to Instagram. “Honestly, the crying is already done, but I just finished with all of my scans and my tumors have significantly shrunk, which doctors believe means that this all will work, and that I will be back to myself and feeling good. I have two more sessions of immunotherapy and then hopefully I am done and I will be cancer free.
“I’m going to keep a positive outlook because that is the way my doctor just spoke to me,” she continued. “He was like, ‘You did this. You got this.’ ”
She then imitated her father’s voice and said he told her, “You got that Mellencamp blood so you’re good.”
She wrote alongside the video, “All tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma n my brain and lungs) have shrunk or disappeared so I have 6ish more weeks of immunotherapy and doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course.
“Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity.”
The amazing news comes just days after she spoke about the possibility of not being able to be there for her children.
“I’m like, ‘I don’t think you understand the debilitating pain that I feel some days thinking about the fact that, like, my kids,” she said getting emotional in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”
“That is extremely frightening,” the ex-Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star added. “My kids are young.”
Mellencamp has three children — daughters Dove (5) and Slate (12) and a son, Cruz (10). And in the interview, she talked about being in the hospital after a surgery to remove some of her brain tumors.
“I was like, ‘I feel like today might be Dove’s birthday,’” she said. “And (her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave) is like, ‘It is. It’s her party today that you planned.’”
Mellencamp, still emotional, said she asked if they could please let her out of the hospital just for the day. She said that is win Arroyave reminded her she had just been through “massive brain surgery” and still had a hole in her head.
She said that is when he told her not to worry about it.
“We’ll throw another one,” she said he said.
But, she said, her heart broke because she wasn’t there for Dove.
Mellencamp also admitted in a recent interview that she is scared. And that came up as she discussed the odds that doctors have given her as she fights to live.
“I learned this isn’t the best question to ask if you’re doing immunotherapy, because immunotherapy has only been around 10 years,” she said. “It’s one of my favorite things to ask is, ‘How long I got? What are my chances?’ And they oftentimes say 50/50. 50/50? I wouldn’t buy a car that’s only gonna drive 50 percent of the time. I don’t want this.”
But Mellencamp said doctors told her the odds are such “because that’s how long immunotherapy has been around so that’s how long the study has worked.”
“So that’s when I then try to find the positive,” she said.
Mellencamp revealed the one thing that scares her about it all, too.
“This is completely out of my control, and for the first time, I’m like really scared,” she said.
Mellencamp also recently revealed that she and her father have made her end-of-life plans.
“Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row,” she said on the ‘Two T’s in a Pod’ podcast. “Finally I answer — ‘I’m in the bath! Let me live a little!’”
Teddi said that her father told her he just wanted “to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum.”
Now, thankfully, it appears like she might be able to put those plans on hold.
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