Teddi Mellencamp Reveals Why She Would not Return To ‘RHOBH’

Teddi Mellencamp turned a family identify when she first started showing in episodes of Bravo’s “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” in 2017.

Since then, the truth star filmed three seasons, clashed with quite a few large personalities, and even appeared on a contest present: “Movie star Massive Brother.”

Years after leaving the present, Mellencamp has been very open about her most cancers analysis. Now, in a brand new interview, she’s revealing if she would ever think about showcasing that journey on a future season of the sequence.

“Yeah, no,” the mom of three mentioned on a brand new episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Present,” per PEOPLE. “I am not someone that likes to do one thing once I cannot be good at it.”

Mellencamp’s revelation comes almost three years after the previous “Housewives” star first shared publicly that she had been recognized with Stage 2 melanoma in October 2022.

Since then, Mellencamp, 44, has undergone a number of surgical procedures and coverings to cease the unfold. The continued well being challenges, she defined, is a major motive she will be able to’t be a part of the present proper now.

“I really feel like my phrases are just a little stuttery generally, and it doesn’t suggest I am telling a lie,” she said. “Some folks must relearn to speak after having these surgical procedures that I had. The truth that I can do as a lot as I can do, I am so blessed for. Nevertheless it nonetheless occurs to me, and a few days are very dangerous.”

As she continued, Mellencamp defined that there are just a few days when she’s ‘stumbling’ over her personal phrases. “And I’d hate to be on a present like that and have someone assume that I used to be not being trustworthy, and actually I used to be simply struggling.”

Mellencamp added that she would not need to put her castmates in a nasty spot, speculating that the viewers may activate somebody for arguing with a forged member battling most cancers.

“I do not assume it might be the most effective for the forged, and it would not be the most effective for me proper now,” she added.

Mellencamp’s considerations about how she may be perceived whereas filming are comprehensible, contemplating one in every of her earlier seasons centered on the notorious “puppygate” scandal and her alleged lies about former co-star Lisa Vanderpump.

The present’s government producer, Andy Cohen, additionally held Mellencamp’s ft to the fireplace throughout the reunion. On X, previously often called Twitter, she acknowledged her errors, writing, “I do know I wasn’t forthcoming concerning the precise particulars of doggygate.”

Following the drama of that season, Mellencamp revealed she discovered a number of new particulars about herself. Her pal, Kyle Richards, additionally jumped in to defend her throughout an episode of “Watch What Occurs Stay.”

“She’s an trustworthy particular person,” Richards mentioned.

Elsewhere, throughout her podcast look, Mellencamp shared one more reason why she would not need to movie a brand new season of “RHOBH,” and it is as a result of she’s presently recapping the present on her podcast with “Actual Housewives of Orange County” star Tamra Choose.

In line with Mellencamp, being a commentator on the present is significantly better for her than being a forged member. Nonetheless, that does not imply she’s ruling out a return to TV utterly.

As she put it, “I’d like to be on TV in some capability.”

And a possible “RHOBH” return wasn’t the one factor Mellencamp opened up about on “The Jamie Kern Lima Present.”

In a earlier episode, coated by The Blast, the truth star mentioned the alleged affair she had along with her horse coach whereas she was married to her ex-husband, Edwin Arroyave.

Mellencamp went on to say that she by no means addressed her alleged relationship with him head-on for the sake of her kids. Nonetheless, she hinted that she was concerned in one thing that had damage different folks near her.

She additionally tearfully shared her concern that her alleged previous conduct is the explanation she’s now coping with most cancers. “Sure, prefer it was my payback,” she mentioned, including that “nothing goes with out cost.”