John Mellencamp says he asked daughter Teddi to move back to Indiana

John Mellencamp said during a Jan. 16 appearance on the Today show that he has asked his daughter, Teddi Mellencamp, to move back to Indiana amid her stage 4 cancer journey, People reports. On the show, the 74-year-old described Teddi's illness, saying, "You can't say you're cancer-free with the type of cancer she's got for three years," and that she "has lesions in her brain" after the disease spread from a small spot on her back to her brain and lungs.

He said she "has good days" but "feels like hell for about four days" after immunotherapy, and added, "I've tried to talk her into moving back home... Move back to Indiana, bring the kids and just come back and live in Indiana, but she won't do it." Days earlier he told the Joe Rogan Experience that Teddi is "suffering" and said, "It's not f---ing fun." Teddi was diagnosed with melanoma in 2022 after a mole was biopsied and has had 17 melanomas removed since then; doctors found multiple brain tumors in February 2025, additional tumors in March 2025, and confirmed the cancer had metastasized to her brain and lungs in April 2025, at which point it was classified as stage four.

She later said in October 2025 that scans after an immunotherapy session showed "no detectable cancer" but that she was not considered in remission and remains on immunotherapy; during a Nightline appearance she said doctors told her the treatment has a "50/50" chance of working. Mellencamp announced the Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits on Jan.

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