Teddi Mellencamp is continuing to share more details of her ongoing cancer battle.
During an interview on Thursday’s (April 10) Nightline, Mellencamp opened up about her immunotherapy treatment, which she said “has only been around 10 years.” The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills personality explained that this makes the question of how long she has to live more complicated.
“One of my favorite things to ask is ‘How long I got? What are my chances?’” she told Deborah Roberts.
However, Mellencamp, whose Stage 4 melanoma has metastasized to her brain and lungs, revealed that doctors have “oftentimes” said she has a “50/50” chance of survival.
“50/50? I wouldn’t buy a car that’s only gonna drive 50 percent of the time. I don’t want this,” she said of her reaction to her doctors. “And he’s like, ‘No, it’s only because that’s how long immunotherapy has been around, so that’s how long the study has worked.’ So that’s when I try to then find the positive.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Mellencamp highlighted the struggle she has especially been experiencing as a normally “super active” person, noting that she “cannot do the things that [she] was used to doing.”
Roberts also praised Mellencamp’s ‘do after shaving her head, and asked if she feels pretty, to which Mellencamp replied that she “sometimes” does.
“Sometimes I feel really strong and beautiful and like I can do anything, and sometimes I feel like this might be the lowest and the hardest things I’ve ever done,” she shared.
Mellencamp has been providing plenty of health updates for fans, in addition to sharing emotional details from a phone call with her father, John Mellencamp, on her Two Ts in a Pod podcast last week.
“Yesterday, my dad calls eleven times in a row. Finally I answer, and I’m like, ‘I’m in the bath! Let me live a little.’ He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum,’” she recalled, in part.
In an Us Weekly interview published on April 2, Mellencamp conceded that she’s “fighting for [her] life,” as well as for the lives of her family and loved ones. While speaking with Nightline, she acknowledged that she “really like[s] to have control.
“And this is completely out of my control, and for the first time I’m really scared,” she confessed of her battle with cancer.
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