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Teddi Mellencamp revealed her dad, John Mellencamp, is already planning for her burial in their family mausoleum in Indiana as she battles stage 4 cancer.

 

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum recalled the rocker calling her multiple times in a row to have the morbid discussion on Tuesday’s episode of her “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast.

“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.

Teddi Mellencamp posing with her dad, John Mellencamp.

Teddi Mellencamp revealed her dad, John Mellencamp, is already planning where she’s laid to rest. teddimellencamp/Instagram

Teddi Mellencamp poses for a photo.

During Tuesday’s episode of her “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast, the reality star recalled her father repeatedly calling her on the phone. Instagram/@teddimellencamp

Teddi, 43, then wondered whether there would also be space in the mausoleum for her three kids, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5.

“He’s like, ‘Well, there’s going to be the top five and then we’re gonna have little areas around it, and then that’s where everyone’s going to get buried,'” the reality star explained.

“He goes, ‘You’re doing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.'”

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“Finally, I answer, I’m like, ‘I’m in the bath. Let me live a little,'” she said. teddimellencamp/Instagram

Teddi Mellencamp poses for a photo.

“He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum,” Teddi continued. teddimellencamp/Instagram

Teddi ultimately agreed, telling co-host Tamra Judge that she would travel to Indiana to visit the burial site.

She joked that the quote “Hot girls never die” would be engraved on her tombstone.

The Bravolebrity shares her three children with estranged husband Edwin Arroyave. The two split in October 2024 after nearly 14 years of marriage.

Teddi Mellencamp poses with her dad, John.

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum shared that her dad explained where she and her three kids would be buried. teddimellencamp/Instagram

Teddi Mellencamp poses for a photo.

John told Teddi to put the plans into her will. teddimellencamp/Instagram

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Teddi was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2022, but doctors discovered she had brain tumors in February.

She was rushed into surgery to have four tumors removed, which doctors believed “had been growing for at least six months.”

 

​​”These are all a direct result of my melanoma,” she shared via Instagram in March.

Teddi Mellencamp poses on a horse.

Their family’s mausoleum is in Indiana. teddimellencamp/Instagram

Teddi Mellencamp poses with Edwin Arroyave

Doctors found several tumors in Teddi’s brain in February. Instagram/@teddimellencamp

Doctors have since found additional tumors in her brain and lungs.

“I’m fighting for my life, but also for my family’s life and all the people I love,” Teddi told Us Weekly in an interview published last week.

She added that cancer is “definitely the hardest thing” she has ever had to face.