Teddi Mellencamp has been planning. Her father John Mellencamp helps her out — whether or not she likes it or no longer.
“The day prior to this my dad calls 11 instances in a row,” Teddi stated within the Tuesday episode of the “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “In spite of everything I solution — ‘I’m within the bathtub! Let me reside somewhat!’”
The “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alumna, who used to be identified with melanoma in 2022, has been preventing a more difficult most cancers fight since docs discovered plum-size tumors in addition to smaller tumors in her mind and extra tumors in her lungs in February. She had mind surgical operation, then two days later, they discovered an extra 4 small mind tumors. Her melanoma had improved to Level 4 and invaded her mind and lungs. The tumors had most likely been there for 6 months to a 12 months, she stated.
“He is going, ‘I simply wish to you should definitely’re going to be in our workforce circle of relatives mausoleum,’” she stated at the podcast.
“Wait wait wait wait wait,” co-host Tamra Pass judgement on exclaimed. “He didn’t. John! No!”
However yeah, he did — John Mellencamp used to be in truth weighing in on his daughter’s funeral. So Teddi stated she requested him, “The place would my youngsters pass?” Now not the place would they discuss with her grave; she sought after to understand the place they might pass within the mausoleum.
“He’s like, ‘Neatly, there’s gonna be the highest 5. after which we’re gonna have little spaces round it after which that’s the place everybody’s gonna get buried,’” she stated. “And I’m going, ‘Do I want to make this dedication at this time?’”
His answer: “‘Neatly, you’re doing all your will at this time, so chances are you’ll as smartly put it in there,’” she stated.
Teddi Mellencamp stated that’s when she began making calls for, like what would pass on her tombstone — if tombstones even exist in mausoleums.
“I stated, ‘Any individual despatched a quote to me the opposite day that critically made me snigger so laborious, I cried with laughter.’ It’s an individual I slightly know … he is going, you wanna know the excellent news? He is going, ‘Scorching ladies by no means die.’
“I used to be like, ‘That’s happening my tombstone.’”
She additionally talked to her rocker dad about her end-of-life needs, which he desires to be answerable for. She stated she used to be “prepared to battle, battle, battle” however doesn’t wish to be “a vegetable.” Her dad discovered some wiggle room in that call, implying that “vegetable” standing may go away room for dialogue. She didn’t agree. “I’m like, ‘What do you imply, like If I’m a cucumber?’”
“Both manner,” Teddi stated, “I feel I agreed to be within the mausoleum and I’m going to need to paintings on my sister subsequent week. The children’ll be proper in the back of me.”
The circle of relatives mausoleum is in Indiana, the supply of the foundation in the back of the ones “Purple Homes” that John Mellencamp made well-known within the Eighties.
And dealing on her will is consistent with what Teddi Mellencamp, who’s getting radiation and immunotherapy, informed Us Weekly previous this month.
“Just a little PSA,” she informed the hole. “Get existence insurance coverage early … and do your will. Doing all of the ones issues if you’ve already been identified with most cancers isn’t a dream. That’s actually laborious. With a bit of luck you by no means get in poor health, however do it prior to you get in poor health.”
