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Edwin Arroyave have been a disengaged woman Teddy mellencampSide Throughout her battle with phase 4 melanoma cancer. As he said, it comes from a place of love.
“No matter what, I always love Teddy and she’s been a big part of my life,” explained Arroyave, 47, on the April 3 episode of “The eds“Podcast.” And I like to take care of people, just what I do. So it wasn’t even as a question, it was reflexive. And the main thing is, once again, finding her to a point where she felt confident, she felt like she wasn’t alone. “
Mellencamp revealed 43, in February that, after dealing with melanoma since 2022, he had metastasized to her lungs and brain; He underwent brain surgery to remove some of the tumors shortly thereafter.
She has been undergoing treatment ever since and revealed that, late March, doctors found four other brains tumors.
“I fight for my life,” he told Weekly US only in our Latest cover story“But also for the life of my family and all the people I love.”
Isabella Arroyave, Edwin Arroyave, Teddy Mellencamp, Teddy Jo Mellencamp and Slate Arroyave
Cook/Getty Stewart ImagesMellencamp and Arroyave, which separated in October 2024 after 13 years of marriage, shared slate children, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5. (Arroyave is also the father of the eldest daughter Isabella, from a previous relationship.)
Arroyave revealed he had been in advance With their childrenfavoring that they heard updates from him rather than reading them on -le.
“They feared. Obviously they were anxious, but I tried my best yet no sugar too much, (i) let them know, ‘Hey, there are some risks that come with this,'” he explained. “It’s like, ‘Hey, there are some tumors that your mother has in her brain. And I said, it sounds worse than it is, but this is what I think is, this is what we think is going to happen. This is a kind of how we are going to deal with it, which is why I am confident that she is confident that she is going to do through it.’
He added that the children had “been strong.”
“You know, children are durable,” he said. “I’ve made a big impression with them. They’ve been doing great at school, they’ve been doing great in sport. I’ve just tried to keep it consistent with them.”
Mellencamp has similarly been in advance with the children, saying Us She has avoided her famous line “Mothers always come back,” just in case.
“They all know that I’m fighting the hardest I can,” he said. “But I haven’t said, ‘Mothers always come back’ because I don’t want to lie to them. And I don’t know.”