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Teddi Mellencamp is not any stranger to pushing via powerful instances—however a latest bout with Covid-19 introduced on an emotional low that she describes as probably the most tough experiences of her life.
On the September 17 episode of her Two T’s in a Pod podcast, the 44-year-old Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum shared that after contracting Covid-19, she sank right into a state of “excessive, excessive despair.”
“I obtained COVID, which, I’m good now,” Teddi stated. “Then I began feeling like excessive, excessive despair.”
She went on to say that the emotional weight of the sickness left her feeling “fully hopeless,” a state that was solely international to her.
Teddi has been battling stage 4 melanoma since earlier this yr, after being initially identified with stage 2 melanoma in 2022. On the time of her stage 4 prognosis, she admitted, “I’m actually scared.” Regardless of the severity of her sickness, she continued dwelling an energetic way of life—competing in horse reveals, courting, and even present process surgical procedure—all whereas attempting to take care of a way of normalcy.
Her podcast co-host, Erika Jayne, noticed that the emotional fallout might have hit her suddenly. “I feel the gravity of what you’ve gone via is hitting you proper now,” Erika stated.
Teddi agreed: “I went from, like, having like this type of chaotic life nonstop after which proper into the hospital. After which I haven’t been in a position to course of.”
Erika identified that Teddi had virtually minimized her prognosis emotionally. “You shrugged this very severe prognosis off prefer it was nothing,” she informed her. “You had surgical procedure, you had been competing in horse reveals, you had been courting … now it’s hitting you, like, months later, the seriousness and the gravity.”
Even at her lowest, Teddi didn’t attain out to Erika or others near her, admitting, “I felt paralyzed. That’s why it’s, like, onerous for me to even ship a textual content message, or, attain out to anyone … the mind fog and all these kinds of issues. It’s simply, like, I can’t stand it.”
Erika responded with compassion: “That is the time that you simply lean on folks. I might have come out right here. I do know you had Covid, however I nonetheless would have come.” She additionally reminded Teddi, “You don’t must be alone with your individual ideas as a result of that rumination can get into a spot the place it’s simply actually heavy.”
The psychological toll was compounded by the bodily isolation of being sick with Covid. “I nonetheless can’t drive,” Teddi defined. “I felt like I used to be simply caught within this home after which I feel COVID added to it … and I used to be like, ‘Holy [expletive], I haven’t felt like this ever ever in my life.’”
This emotional spiral comes after she publicly shared in April 2025 that her docs had given her a “50/50 likelihood” of surviving her most cancers. “I actually wish to have management, and that is fully out of my management,” she stated. “And for the primary time, I’m actually scared.”
Fortunately, Paxlovid helped Teddi get better from Covid. “Now I can go away my home,” she stated. “Yesterday I used to be like, okay, I’ll go get my nails, achieved. I obtained a pedi. So you understand it’s what it’s.”
