Teddi Mellencamp needed the tea from Southern Charm star Shep Rose while bedridden from brain tumor surgery.
“I never freaking thought that I would be sad not to talk about Shep’s jacked-up relationship with [Sienna Evans]. I cannot,” Mellencamp, 43, said on the Thursday, March 13, episode of her “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “Even from the hospital, I had to text Shep. I was like, ‘What are you doing? This is embarrassing.’”
According to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, Rose, 44, told her that she didn’t “know the full story.” (Rose and Evans’ short-lived romance is currently playing out on season 10 of Southern Charm.)
“I [tell him], ‘I don’t need to know the full story because what I saw, no,’” Mellencamp recalled. “I need to get back into recapping [for this podcast].”
Mellencamp took a hiatus from her and Tamra Judge’s podcast after announcing in February that she needed surgery to remove tumors from her brain.
“I can say I’ve had some of my darkest, saddest days since … when this happened,” Mellencamp said on Thursday’s episode, her first podcast appearance since the health scare. “I started, like, sobbing to [Tamra] and I’m like, ‘I need you to take me to the hospital right now. I think I’m dying. I can’t see, I can’t walk, I can’t even get out of bed.’”
Teddi Mellencamp, Shep Rose, Sienna Evans Getty Images; Bravo; Courtesy of Sienna Evans/Instagram
As she experienced debilitating headaches, Mellencamp’s estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, encouraged her to get a CT scan at a local hospital. (Mellencamp and Arroyave, who share three children, separated in fall 2024.)
Sienna Evans and Shep Rose Farreno Ferguson/Bravo
“The hardest part is that nobody wanted to tell me what was really happening because they were scared, and so I didn’t know what was happening,” Mellencamp tearfully recalled. “I thought I was fine. Like, I thought I could go home the next day, and, like, once the tumors are out, I thought I would be done. I can’t even tell you guys, like, I really didn’t understand anything and it was such a bummer.”
Mellencamp ultimately underwent a craniotomy, during which four tumors were removed from her skull. She will next complete radiation and immunotherapy treatment beginning later this month.
“When I didn’t have, like, my wits about me, and I felt lost, I felt so alone and so sad, and like, I had moments of being like, ‘I don’t know that anyone’s given me, like, a real hug,’” Mellencamp added. “I was really really sad. But I feel, like, right now I’m starting to see the light and I’m starting to think about the future, and I feel like for the first time, I’m able to set goals.”
