Teddi Mellencamp is sharing some major updates on her health amid her ongoing battle with Stage 4 cancer. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum took to her podcast on March 3, where she revealed that she had been in the hospital after a recent health scare and almost missed her youngest daughter Dove Arroyave’s sixth birthday party because of it.
During the podcast episode, Teddi admitted that she had felt “a little sick” a few days prior to recording. “I thought I had the flu,” she said. But, she woke up later that week, “and my whole body was covered in this terrible rash. You can’t even say it’s a rash, because there’s almost like sores…and they hurt, and they burned.”
After going to urgent care for what she thought was an allergic reaction, they sent her to the emergency room, where doctors were able to properly diagnose her. “Essentially what happened was I was given a medication, and a new medication, and I was allergic to it, and it caused something that’s called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare life-threatening medical emergency causing severe painful blisters of the skin and mucous membranes,” Teddi explained.
These blisters were in her mouth and around her eyes, “a little bit.” But the ER doctor immediately put her on “injectable steroids and antibiotics.” “And then just after a couple of days, it just thankfully got better,” she noted.
Teddi Mellencamp celebrates her daughter Dove Arroyave’s birthday after her hospitalization
Teddi revealed on the podcast that she had asked the doctor “a thousand times” to grant her permission to leave the hospital in order to celebrate Dove’s birthday at her party. Teddi had previously missed her youngest daughter’s February 2025 birthday party due to her recovery from brain surgery, which meant that Dove had to celebrate with her dad, Edwin Arroyave, and her three siblings.
But Teddi was able to make it to the party this year to celebrate Dove turning six, even though she still felt under the weather from Stevens-Johnson syndrome. “I wasn’t feeling great, but it’s just like the adrenaline from just being there,” she explained on the podcast. “Yeah, I was so happy.”
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Teddi took to her Instagram Story over the weekend, where she snapped a photo of Dove before her party. “So happy I am out of [the] hospital in time for Dove’s party,” she wrote over the sweet photo of her. “Last year I couldn’t, and it broke my heart.”
Teddi Mellencamp gives a look inside Dove Arroyave’s sixth birthday party
Teddi also took to her Instagram account on March 2, where she posted a photo of her hugging Dove at her birthday party, where she was surrounded by friends. “Last year I was in the hospital and missed Dove’s birthday party,” she wrote in the caption of the post. “This year, I wasn’t going to let the same thing happen. So grateful and emotional, I got to celebrate six with her.”
The mom of three had previously taken to her Instagram account on Dove’s birthday on Feb. 25, where she posted a series of photos taken throughout Dove’s six years of life, while penning the sweetest tribute to the little girl. “I am still so sorry I was in the hospital and missed your 5th birthday party; but dang you don’t know how grateful I am to be at this one,” she wrote in the caption of the post.
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