Teddi Mellencamp will at all times respect her dad, John Mellencamp, regardless of their well-documented ups and downs.
John welcomed daughters Teddi and Justice with ex-wife Victoria Granucci in 1981 and 1985, respectively. The singer additionally shares daughter Michelle with ex Priscilla Esterline, and sons Hud and Speck with ex-wife Elaine Irwin.
In Might 2024, Teddi shared that her relationship together with her dad was strained rising up, however is now in a significantly better place.
“I feel he at all times tried his greatest,” she mentioned of her father’s parenting on an episode of the “Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson” podcast. “Do I feel that we’re in a means higher place now than after I was a child? Sure, but additionally as a result of I imply, I didn’t actually perceive the significance of a great relationship with my dad and mom after I was a child.”
John has continued to help Teddi all through her life, together with her battle with most cancers. Teddi shared in February 2025 that she had stage 4 melanoma that had metastasized to her lungs and mind.
“Dad. Thanks for saying sure you consider in me and know I can do it,” Teddi wrote through Instagram Story in March 2025. “Cried with happiness that I’ve your help.”
Preserve scrolling to see what Teddi and John have shared about their father-daughter relationship through the years:
John Mellencamp Tuning into ‘RHOBH’ to Help Teddi Mellencamp
Teddi Mellencamp, John Mellencamp and Justice Mellencamp Kevin Mazur/Getty Pictures for JM
After Teddi Mellencamp introduced she was leaving Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, John Mellencamp mentioned in November 2020 that he was “terribly excited and comfortable” that she was exiting the present. John famous that he “tried to be supportive” and watch the present — however doesn’t “watch it anymore.”
“I feel that it’s nice and I feel that a few of the ladies on the present are incredible,” he informed Teddi on an episode of her “Teddi Tea Pod.” “However I don’t like individuals to know the place I’m at, I don’t like individuals to know what I’m doing, I wish to have privateness. That’s why I stick round my properties and don’t go anyplace.”
He’s ‘Most Proud’ of His Youngsters
In October 2021, Teddi Mellencamp interviewed her dad for Further for his seventieth birthday. In the course of the episode, he couldn’t assist however gush about how proud he was to have Teddi interview him.
Over time, stars together with Jennette McCurdy and Macaulay Culkin have mentioned hitting all-time low with their dad and mom. Jennette broke down the abuse she confronted due to her mom, Debra McCurdy, in her memoir, I Am Glad My Mother Died. “In fact, there are moments the place I fantasize that my mother would’ve apologized or that […]
“The truth that I’m even sitting right here speaking to my daughter is an actual success story in itself,” he defined. “I’m most pleased with you children. I’m pleased with you children since you might’ve turned out fairly otherwise.”
John Mellencamp Being ‘Proud’ of Teddi Mellencamp for ‘Superstar Massive Brother’
John Mellencamp took to social media to congratulate Teddi Mellencamp on her Superstar Massive Brother look.
“A tv present that Teddi is on premieres tonight,” he wrote through Instagram in February 2022, alongside a photograph of himself with Teddi and her daughters Slate and Dove, whom she shares with ex Edwin Arroyave. (Additionally they share son Cruz.) “I don’t know what she’s doing, however I’m pleased with her and hope she achieves her targets.”
Teddi Mellencamp Opens Up About Not Speaking With John Mellencamp for ‘a Couple of Years’
In Might 2024, Teddi Mellencamp shared on an episode of the “Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson” that her and John Mellencamp had a strained relationship rising up after her dad and mom’ divorce. As a substitute of “flying to Indiana” to go to her father each different weekend, Teddi would select to remain dwelling and hang around with mates.
“I in all probability actually harm his emotions doing that,” she defined. “I imply, there was one level — we joke about this dialog as a result of it’s in all probability so traumatizing — however I received mad at him for one thing,” she recalled. “And he mentioned, ‘ what? F you, Teddi. I’ve different children,’ and we didn’t discuss for a few years.”
Teddi Mellencamp Crying Over Dad’s ‘Help’ Amid Most cancers Battle
Teddi Mellencamp took to her Instagram Story to confess that she was crying “with happiness” that she had her dad’s “help” amid her battle with most cancers.
Erika Jayne is suggesting an unlikely legendary setup between John Mellencamp and her newly-single Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills costar Dorit Kemsley. “John ought to get with Dorit. That’s what [should happen],” Erika, 53, informed John’s daughter, Teddi Mellencamp, on the Thursday, Might 1, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Diamonds within the Tough” podcast. Teddi, who starred on […]
“Thanks for saying sure you consider in me and know I can do it,” she added.
John Mellencamp Making Teddi Mellencamp Snort All through Most cancers Remedy
In April 2025, Teddi Mellencamp mentioned that her dad tried to name her 11 occasions in a row and when she lastly answered, he had a query for her.
“Lastly, I reply, I’m like, ‘I’m within the tub. Let me reside a little bit,’” Teddi recalled on her iHeartRadio “Diamonds within the Tough” podcast. “He goes, ‘I simply wish to be sure to’re going to be in our group household mausoleum.”
Teddi mentioned she replied that she has children and didn’t know the place they’d go within the mausoleum.
“He’s like, ‘Effectively, there’s going to be the highest 5 after which we’re gonna have little areas round it, after which that’s the place everybody’s going to get buried,’” she continued. “He goes, ‘You’re doing all of your will proper now, so you could as nicely put it in there.’”
Teddi Mellencamp and her sister Justice Mellencamp permitted of father John Mellencamp’s relationship with Meg Ryan. “Clearly we have been ecstatic,’ Justice, 40, revealed on the Sunday, April 20, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “We have been like, ‘What? How?’ She was the nicest. I imply, proper off the bat. Effectively, in comparison with […]
Later that month, Teddi clarified that his feedback have been made to make her snicker.
“My dad is aware of that I would like, like, some comedy to this,” she defined to cohost Erika Jayne on their “Diamonds within the Tough” podcast. “His subsequent quote or his subsequent factor was like, all proper, now we really actually do should get speaking critical, like we have to discuss your will and like your residing belief and like, do the issues we have to do, you realize. … Generally I don’t need simply somebody to come back pummel me.”
John Mellencamp’s Want to Be Nearer to Teddi Mellencamp
As Teddi Mellencamp recovered from her stage 4 most cancers battle in January 2026, John Mellencamp expressed needs that his daughter would reside nearer to him.
“I’ve tried to speak her into transferring again dwelling,” he shared on NBC’s At the moment present. “I mentioned, ‘Transfer again to Indiana, carry the children and simply come again and reside in Indiana,’ however she gained’t do it.”
Though Teddi’s scans in October 2025 confirmed “no detectable most cancers,” John mentioned he hasn’t stopped checking in along with his daughter.
“You may’t say you’re cancer-free with the kind of most cancers she’s received for 3 years,” he defined.
