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Teddi Mellencamp reveals her father John Mellencamp asked her about her own burial plans

Apr 10, 2025

Teddi Mellencamp has revealed the tough conversation she had with her singer father John Mellencamp amid her health battle.

The reality star, 43, recently revealed her melanoma had turned to stage four and had metastasized to her lungs and brain.

Speaking in a recent episode of her podcast, called Two T’s In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge, the Real Housewives star said her father called her to ask where she would want to be buried if she dies.

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“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,'” she said.

“He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum.'”

She added her father said: “You’re doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.”

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She went on to joke about her tombstone, saying she’d want “hot girls never die!” on there.

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Last week, she reportedly said in a post her melanoma had turned to stage four and said: “Stage 4 cancer can be scary.”

“I’m fighting for my life,” the reality star, 43, told US Weekly recently.

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“But also for my family’s life and all the people I love.”

US Weekly also reported her stage four diagnosis and said that four more small tumours on her brain had been discovered days after their chat.

The star recently had had four tumours removed during brain surgery.

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She later told fans after returning home from hospital that scans showed she has “multiple tumours in her brain” and two in her lungs.

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