Teddi Mellencamp and dad John get real about burial plans as she battles Stage 4 cancer

Teddi Mellencamp has been making plans. Her begetter John Mellencamp is helping her retired — whether she likes it oregon not.

“Yesterday my dada calls 11 times successful a row,” Teddi said successful the Tuesday occurrence of the “Two T’s successful a Pod” podcast. “Finally I reply — ‘I’m successful the bath! Let maine unrecorded a little!’”

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alumna, who was diagnosed with melanoma successful 2022, has been warring a tougher crab conflict since doctors recovered plum-size tumors arsenic good arsenic smaller tumors successful her encephalon and much tumors successful her lungs successful February. She had encephalon surgery, past 2 days later, they recovered an further 4 tiny encephalon tumors. Her melanoma had progressed to Stage 4 and invaded her encephalon and lungs. The tumors had astir apt been determination for six months to a year, she said.

“He goes, ‘I conscionable privation to marque definite you’re going to beryllium successful our radical household mausoleum,’” she said connected the podcast.

“Wait hold wait hold wait,” co-host Tamra Judge exclaimed. “He did not. John! No!”

But yeah, helium did — John Mellencamp was really weighing successful connected his daughter’s funeral. So Teddi said she asked him, “Where would my kids go?” Not wherever would they sojourn her grave; she wanted to cognize wherever they would spell successful the mausoleum.

“He’s like, ‘Well, there’s gonna beryllium the apical five. and past we’re gonna person small areas astir it and past that’s wherever everyone’s gonna get buried,’” she said. “And I go, ‘Do I request to marque this committedness close now?’”

His reply: “‘Well, you’re doing your volition close now, truthful you mightiness arsenic good enactment it successful there,’” she said.

Teddi Mellencamp said that’s erstwhile she started making demands, similar what would spell connected her tombstone — if tombstones adjacent beryllium successful mausoleums.

“I said, ‘Somebody sent a punctuation to maine the different time that earnestly made maine laughter truthful hard, I cried with laughter.’ It’s a idiosyncratic I hardly cognize ... helium goes, you wanna cognize the bully news? He goes, ‘Hot girls ne'er die.’

“I was like, ‘That’s going connected my tombstone.’”

She besides talked to her rocker dada astir her end-of-life wishes, which helium wants to beryllium successful complaint of. She said she was “willing to fight, fight, fight” but doesn’t privation to beryllium “a vegetable.” Her dada recovered immoderate wiggle country successful that decision, implying that “vegetable” presumption mightiness permission country for discussion. She did not agree. “I’m like, ‘What bash you mean, similar If I’m a cucumber?’”

“Either way,” Teddi said, “I deliberation I agreed to beryllium successful the mausoleum and I’m going to person to enactment connected my sister adjacent week. The kids’ll beryllium close down me.”

The household mausoleum is successful Indiana, the root of the inspiration down those “Pink Houses” that John Mellencamp made celebrated successful the 1980s.

And moving connected her volition is successful enactment with what Teddi Mellencamp, who is getting radiation and immunotherapy, told Us Weekly earlier this month.

“A small PSA,” she told the outlet. “Get beingness security aboriginal … and bash your will. Doing each of those things erstwhile you’ve already been diagnosed with crab isn’t a dream. That’s truly hard. Hopefully you ne'er get sick, but bash it earlier you get sick.”