Teddi Mellencamp Says She Could “Barely Walk” or “See” Before Discovering Brain Tumors, Shares Why She Ignored Headaches for “6 Months” & Talks Throwing Up “85 Times” in 1 Day

Teddi Mellencamp revealed she could “barely walk” and “couldn’t see” before doctors discovered her recent brain tumors. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star also shared why she ignored her severe headaches for “six months,” as Tamra Judge reacted.

Last month, Teddi had surgery to remove multiple tumors in her brain. For the last three years, she’s been treated for melanoma. The star is currently in the middle of a divorce from her husband, Edwin Arroyave.

“I remember being in such extreme pain,” said Teddi on her Two Ts in a Pod podcast, via @byewighellodrama on Instagram. “I could barely walk. I couldn’t see. Every second that we weren’t filming [the podcast], I would have to lay in the bed. I remember you [Tamra] were like, ‘Why don’t you want to go out? Why don’t you want to do this?’ I didn’t want to do anything. Like I was in extreme, excruciating pain in my head.”

Teddi recalled telling Tamra that she couldn’t do the podcast that day, and Tamra told her to “go to the hospital.”

She said her estranged husband Edwin took her to the hospital.

“I didn’t know what to do, because, you know, everything in my life is clearly upside down. And so I called my friend Val actually, and I started sobbing to her. And I’m like, I need you to take me to the hospital right now. I think I’m dying,” said Teddi. “She was like, ‘I’m with another friend at a doctor’s appointment.’ So then I called Edwin, and Edwin took me to the hospital.”

Tamra asked Teddi why she ignored her severe headaches for six months.

In tears, Teddi answered, “I think because so much bad stuff was going on right then. I didn’t want to face any of it. And I was like, I just need to keep moving forward, and if I keep moving forward, then everything is going to be fine.”

She never thought it was cancer because she had just gone for a checkup, where she learned that she was “clear” of melanoma for the first time in three years.

“The hardest part is that nobody was really wanting to tell me what was happening because they were scared, and so I didn’t know what was happening,” she said through tears. “Like, I thought I was fine. Like, I thought I could go home the next day. And once the tumors were out, I thought I would be done … I really didn’t understand anything.”

She also recalled her hospital discharge, which came two weeks after the surgery. At the time, she couldn’t be discharged until she urinated, which was difficult as she was on “disgusting sodium pills” and a sodium drip. “I couldn’t pee, guys. I do not know why I could not pee.”

“One day, I remember I had just thrown up, like, 85 times from the stupid salt pills,” she went on, via PEOPLE. After leaving the ICU, Teddi went with a full-time nurse to a hotel, where “things were a lot better,” though she “got really, really sad.”

Tamra added, “I think it was then — when your memory’s coming back and feeling a little bit better — you’re really acknowledging what’s going on …. [Our talk on the phone at that time] was the moment that I was dreading because then you knew what was going on with you.”

“Once I understood, then I got really sad,” said Teddi.

Tamra shared that after getting the diagnosis, Teddi texted her saying, “‘You all thought I was mental, but actually I’m on my deathbed.’”

“I remember feeling like this is actually it,” said Teddi of the text. Despite the upcoming battle, Teddi shared that she’s “feeling really positive” concerning her treatment. Her plan is to begin radiation on March 17, and she’ll have immunotherapy once every three weeks.