iHeartRadio Music Awards: Teddi Mellencamp Tears Up Sharing How John Mellencamp “Saved” Her Amid Cancer

But amid concerns over Teddi’s health following John’s comments, the Bravo star set the record straight on what her dad was really trying referring to.

“When he said the words ‘suffering,’ he meant how I’m mentally doing,” she said on the Jan. 26 episode of her and Tamra Judge’s Two Ts in a Pod podcast, “versus how I’m physically doing.”

At the time, Teddi—who shares kids Slate, 12, Cruz, 11, and Dove, 6, with ex Edwin Arroyave—noted that she was still undergoing immunotherapy and adjusting to a new normal but was hopeful that she would ultimately enter remission. As she put it, “Every day is a new day.”