Why She Did not Speak to Dad John for 3 Yrs

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Teddi Mellencamp went three years with out chatting with her father, John Mellencamp, and through a current episode of her podcast, she opened up about why.

After a fan wrote into her and Tamra Decide‘s present, desirous to know why the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills forged member had beforehand claimed she had no cash, regardless of her rich dad, Teddi defined that she wasn’t all the time on good phrases with the famed musician, particularly after he break up from her mother, Vicki Granucci.

“When my mother and father acquired a divorce, I used to be within the third grade,” Teddi recalled on the November 14 episode of Two Ts in a Pod. “My mother acquired a major sum of money. However she was a younger lady. She married my dad when she was 18. So we moved to a very completely different state, new place, no matter. She acquired a lump sum, after which she would get baby help.”

Though Vicky had some huge cash coming in at the moment, Teddi mentioned she “didn’t know find out how to handle her cash.” And, by the point Teddi was in highschool, the household was broke.

“We didn’t have any cash, after which my rule with my dad was that if I needed to maneuver to California and never go to school, I needed to help myself,” Teddi revealed. “I’ve no belief fund. There was no belief fund. [And] financially, I by no means had his backing.”

“Everybody thinks we grew up with a silver spoon in our mouths, however we grew up with our mother,” she added.

In reality, when Teddi was 15-years-old, she and John acquired into an argument that led to a three-year estrangement.

“We didn’t discuss for 3 years over cash,” she shared, not revealing particulars.

However whereas John hasn’t been one to recklessly fund Teddi’s way of life, the previous RHOBH forged member admitted that he’s all the time gracious relating to spending time with household on the vacations.

“If he needs us to come back house, he’ll fly everybody however Edwin [and] the numerous others,” she defined. “He doesn’t fly the numerous others. The husbands have to determine it out.”

Teddi then addressed the subject of John’s new girlfriend, who he’s been relationship for about six months, saying that lady, who she didn’t identify, “was one in every of [her] finest pals” and is simply “a few years older” than she is.

“She’s very non-public, so I’m not going to say her identify, however I’m positive you would undergo my Instagram and determine it out,” she famous. “And it’s not that she’s not my finest good friend anymore.”

In line with Teddi, she truly met the lady via her husband, Edwin Arroyave, and John met her via the 2 of them.

“They met 10 years in the past via me at a live performance. She got here as mine and Edwin’s visitor,” Teddi revealed.