Celebrity News May 21, 2025
Teddi Mellencamp Reveals 'Big Celebration' Amid Stage 4 Cancer Battle (Exclusive)
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“Extra” caught up with Teddi Mellencamp on the red carpet at the 50th Annual Gracie Awards in L.A.
Teddi, who is battling stage 4 cancer, shared, "I'm feeling pretty good. I'm on day five post-immunotherapy, so those are always the days that I'm little blurry — but I'm hanging in.”
She added, “I realize that in order for me to feel better, I have to go out and do things that I love and enjoy and believe in.. Then I also listen to myself on the days that I have the time to just kind of relax. I think on Sunday, I called one, you know, of my friends. I'm like, ‘Can you help me out? I need to take a nap.’ I think I napped for, like, five hours, and I didn't, back in the day, I would have guilted myself about that, but I was like, ‘No, I need this.’”
She shared that she just got some major news about her treatment.
Teddi said, “I just found out that I have to be doing immunotherapy for the next two years, but that my tumors are shrinking, so that's incredibly good news. The dosage will switch, so I'm excited for that change because right now, it's been every three weeks and it's, you know, heavy dosage, so being able to rotate was a big celebration for me that I'm not gonna have days where I'm feeling kind of like I'm feeling today.”
Plus, Mellencamp dished on a fun night celebrating Kyle Richards’ daughter Alexia Umansky at her engagement party!
“It was a pre-wedding party... It was so much fun,” she said. “I made it out till 12:30. I mean, we ended up having to put on some of Kyle's, like, comfy slides from Amazon ’cause we were like, ‘I can't do it anymore, I gotta switch.' But it was so much fun, it was so beautiful, and congratulations to Alexia.”
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View StoryTeddi reflected on the event and empowering women with her story, saying, “Well, I think it's given me the courage to keep pushing forward because I know that the amount of people that have come up to me and gone, ‘Oh, I went to get my skin checked because of you,’ or, ‘I had a headache and it wouldn't go away, so I finally went to the doctor.’ You know, all of those different things has made me feel like, okay, this is all worth it, because other people are changing their life or things that they wouldn't have naturally done without hearing my story."
