Teddi Mellencamp Gets Honest About Her Possible Death Amid Cancer Battle _ E! News

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00:00Teddy Mellencamp is opening up about dealing with her own mortality.

00:04During an interview with Us Weekly published April 2nd, the Real Housewives alum shares how

00:08she's had to think about her possible death since beginning her cancer treatments last month.

00:13As she tells the outlet,

00:14I'm fighting for my life, but also for my family's life and all the people I love.

00:19In February, Teddy got the devastating diagnosis

00:22that she had multiple brain tumors that had spread to her lungs.

00:25In the weeks that followed, the 43-year-old underwent brain surgery to remove some masses

00:31and began radiation and immunotherapy to shrink the others.

00:34She tells the outlet that in June,

00:36I find out exactly where we stand with the treatment plan.

00:40If you need to do another round, if there's any other surgery,

00:43if it's the end, it's a hard pill to swallow.

00:46And as for how the two Ts in a pod podcast host is coping with the very possibility of her death,

00:51she admits quote,

00:52Everybody wants me to be super positive all the time.

00:55One of my coping mechanisms is being sarcastic.

00:58I'd rather joke about it and have the best possible outcome

01:01than be completely in denial and have my heart broken.

01:04Teddy also shares that she's put her kids into therapy

01:07to help them through the trauma of their mom's battle,

01:10saying,

01:10I'm not equipped to fully handle this.

01:12It is helping me because they ask me questions

01:15that I probably wouldn't have thought to give them answers to.

01:18Teddy continues,

01:19They realize when I'm in pain and how massive the surgery was.

01:22I don't know that they know the rest.

01:25I can't imagine my life without them.

01:27So I'm going to do everything I possibly can,

01:29no matter how mean it makes me.

01:31I can't imagine any of them living without me.