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Teddi Mellencamp Starts Therapy, Clarifies Dad’s ‘Really Sick’ Remark as No Cancer Detected

She says public alarm reflected her mental-health struggle, not a new cancer recurrence.

Overview

  • Teddi Mellencamp said on her Two T’s in a Pod podcast that she has begun therapy to process the emotional fallout of surgery, divorce and treatment.
  • She reaffirmed that recent scans show no detectable cancer, though she remains classified as stage IV and continues immunotherapy.
  • She clarified that John Mellencamp’s January comments about her being “really sick” referred to her mental state rather than a return of cancer.
  • Mellencamp described ongoing side effects including exhaustion, anxiety, difficulty with touch and movement, and feeling slower than before.
  • Her melanoma progressed to the brain and lungs in 2025, leading to emergency brain surgery and more than a dozen procedures before the October update of no detectable disease.