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Teddy mellencampChildren still make sense of her cancer battle-especially her 10-year-old son, Cruz.
“I think the girls are right because they are so conversational. They ask everything,” said Mellencamp, 43, Extra On Thursday, April 17. “Cruz, it’s a little confused because he doesn’t ask questions.”
Along with Cruz, Mellencamp shares slate women, 12, and Dove, 4, with her disengaged husband Edwin Arroyave. She remembered recent examples of her son’s struggle Understand what she goes through.
“The other day I was taking a sip from something and it’s going, ‘Can I get a sip?’ I was like, ‘Yes, for sure.’ And it goes, ‘Never mind, really you’re infectious.’ I’m like, ‘I’m not really contagious, bud,’ ”he said. “He will come in in the middle of the night and check that I breathe.”
The first Real housewives from Beverly hills Star, who was diagnosed with melanoma initially announced in 2022, earlier this year She needed surgery After doctors find several malignant tumors on her brain. Since then she has needed additional treatment to manage the tumors that they could not be surgical removed.
“Today is a good day. I think what I’ve learned through all of this is some days, I’m going to feel great. Some days, I don’t. Everyone’s journey is different,” Mellencamp told the outlet. “I would say that all of the people who are messing me say, ‘I went to be checked for you.’ Or ‘just checked this on my doctor, and then I said,’ No, you should do this too.
As their health battle continues, a mellencamp determined to raise awareness.
“What we have to remember is that my cancer was skin cancer. The last time we spoke here, I had skin cancer – melanoma – on my back. This metastasized, which is still a kind of melanoma, but in my brain, to my lungs,” he explained. “Before I was removed, I had four plum size melanomas in my brain, and I hadn’t had a cat scan. But I had gone and checked my skin every three months.”
Mellencamp has another important appointment coming later this month, adding, “Wednesday, I’m going in and getting my next cat scan, where they’ll find out if these recent tumors are getting smaller, and then I also get my third round of immunotherapy. I always thought radiation was the one who was going to kick my husband.”
Despite the announcement of its division of Arroyave in November 2024, Mellencamp confirm they are still Living under the same roof.
“We’re not together, but we defer all the divorce things because divorce is a big stress,” he noted. “It’s called nesting, but most of the time now since I got these surgeries, it will stay in the house and then we’re kind of rotating around. But we’re separate in a bedroom.”
He added: “He’s a good man, and we get friendship, and that’s what we liked for each other in the first place. We make each other laugh and all those sorts of things so I think it’s been very nice. We call it divorce chronicles, where we just tease each other.”