US reality star told pals she was ‘on her deathbed’ amid cancer battle

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp has revealed the harrowing moment she let friends know the truth about her health.

While Teddi Mellencamp was hospitalised for treatment for her multiple brain tumours, she believed she was on her “deathbed” and sent out final texts to her loved ones.

“I remember feeling like this is actually it,” Mellencamp said while breaking down in tears on her Two Ts in a Pod podcast, co-hosted by fellow Real Housewives star Tamra Judge.

Judge shared that she received a text from Mellencamp, explaining, “You said to me, ‘you all thought I was mental, but I’m actually on my deathbed’.”

Judge then emotionally replied, “’No, you’re not, because if you’re on yours [deathbed], then I’m on mine, because I can’t live without you’.”

Teddi Mellencamp has opened up about thinking she was on her deathbed. Picture: Instagram.

Mellencamp, the daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, opened up about her hospitalisation and confessed it was a vulnerable and tumultuous time in her life.

Leading up to her devastating diagnosis, Mellencamp experienced debilitating symptoms before doctors found several tumors in her brain.

“It was all very patchy, my memory at this point,” she continued. “I remember being in such extreme, excruciating pain.”

Mellencamp and Judge described how they were in New Orleans during her health crisis.

Judge praised her friend and said, “I don’t know how you pushed through that,” as both reality stars were filming at the time.

As Mellencamp dealt with extreme pain, the co-hosts shared the moment they knew “something’s not right.”

Real Housewives stars Kyle Richards, Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, Lisa Vanderpump, Erika Girardi, Dorit Kemsley, Lisa Rinna. Photo: Bravo

“I could barely walk, I couldn’t see, every second we weren’t filming I would have to lay in the bed … I didn’t want to do anything. I was in extreme, excruciating pain in my head,” said Mellencamp.

She also shared that she despised the medication she was put on and requested to transfer to another healthcare facility.

“One day I remember, I had just thrown up, like, 85 times from these stupid salt pills that I hate and had to take for two weeks after I got out of the ICU (intensive care unit),” Mellencamp explained.

“I begged my dad — ‘Dad, can you please let me go into a post-care centre … I’m not doing well in here. I’m coming unhinged, I’m losing sense of who I am’.”

While Mellencamp was eventually discharged to a hotel with a full-time nurse, healthcare workers then revealed they had discovered more tumors in her head and lungs.

Mellencamp concluded her podcast by saying she’s giving herself “grace” to heal during her recovery. She is additionally “forever grateful” to the healthcare team that worked “miracles” during her brain surgery.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.

Originally published as US reality star told pals she was ‘on her deathbed’ amid cancer battle