REALITY CHECK

John Mellencamp Prepares Daughter’s Grave as She Battles Cancer

The former “Real Housewives” star says she’s fighting for her life.

Singer John Mellencamp is bracing for the worst as his 43-year-old daughter battles stage 4 cancer, which has spread to her brain and her lungs. The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said that her 73-year-old dad called her “11 times in a row” to discuss her burial and make sure she’ll be in the “group family mausoleum,” she revealed in Tuesday’s episode of her Two Ts in a Pod podcast. She responded to his incessant calls by saying “let me live a little” but later asked her dad if there would eventually be space in the Indiana mausoleum for her three children, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5. He said that everyone would be buried in or around the tomb and she agreed to visit her grave before the cancer progresses further. She joked she wanted “hot girls never die” engraved on her tombstone. But even as she writes her will, Teddi’s battle is not over. She told US Weekly last week that it is the “hardest thing” she’s ever faced but “I’m fighting for my life” and “for my family’s life and all the people I love.” Speaking to Extra!, Mellencamp’s former Housewives co-star Erika Jayne said of John’s apparent burial plans: “Oh, well, that’s also partially humorous… I don’t, wouldn’t take that way too seriously.” Jayne added: “You know, I think that she’s getting the best care possible, and Teddi’s a fighter.”