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Teddi Mellencamp revealed her heartbreaking conversation with her new boyfriend, PJ Conley, about their “future.” Plus, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star addressed why she hasn’t yet divorced her husband, Edwin Arroyave.
Two years ago, Teddi announced that she and Edwin were getting a divorce. Though they’ve stayed on good terms as they co-parent their four children, the exes are still broken up. Back in August, Teddi hard-launched her relationship with PJ, who she’s been referring to as “The Valley guy.”
After filing for divorce, Teddi learned that she has brain cancer. After several surgeries and treatment, she recently shared that she’s currently cancer-free, but her doctors can’t yet say that she’s in remission.
“I haven’t been able to talk to anyone about this yet,” said Teddi, choking back tears on her podcast, Two Ts in a Pod. “I went out with The Valley guy last night. He’s like, ‘Should we talk about the future?’”
“To be perfectly honest, like I don’t know if I’m going to be alive in the future,” she continued. “And I’m like, ‘Well, what are you thinking about? Because I’m in a completely different place in my life. I’ve got four kids.’ He’s like, ‘I like you. I have so much fun with you, but when I look at a future, I don’t see you in it.’”
Teddi said she felt like he was “breathing life into me.” She added, “But now I feel like, am I just not good enough?”
Around the same time on The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show, Teddi addressed why she and her husband are still legally married.
“So one, we’re technically not divorced,” said Teddi, via BravoTV. “But I mean, it is so over. He has a very serious girlfriend, who’s great. Who’s amazing. [We’re not divorced yet because of] all this medical stuff.”
“I realized I was having a brain tumor as we were in the middle of the divorce, and the doctors are like, ‘She’s not really in the capacity to do this now.’ I had a doctor’s note,” she explained. “[He’s] been there like a rock.”
“My dad [musician John Mellencamp] was very smart to have [a] conversation with Edwin [after I got sick]. He just said, ‘Edwin, whatever you guys fought about beforehand really doesn’t make a difference. What you need is her to survive and just be there for her until she’s in remission, if you can do that.’ And his attitude completely changed.”
Teddi said her new relationship with Edwin is solid.
“He knows now even, I will call him sometimes when I’m upset and be like, ‘Help me get out of this funk.’ Because he knows me so well. And I also think it’s different when you’re not in love with the person anymore,” she stated.
She then addressed her new relationship with PJ, who she’s dated for “a couple months.”
“It’s very new,” she shared at the time of the interview. “He is good-looking. And he’s tall.” She explained that there isn’t any need to rush the romance, but she calls PJ the “guy I’m dating,” while he calls Teddi “the girl that I’m talking to exclusively.” Teddi also shared that he’s met her kids.
“We’ve been on trips together, and he sees what a chaotic situation my life is,” she expressed. “And he’s not in the public eye at all. So I think it’s a slow burn when you haven’t seen it before.”
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