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Teddi Mellencamp confirms split from Ricci Rea

Teddi Mellencamp has confirmed her split from Ricci Rea

Teddi Mellencamp has split from Ricci Rea.

The 44-year-old TV star was spotted with a mystery man last month and it was subsequently revealed that she was dating the producer - but Teddi has now revealed that she's already ended their romance.

During an appearance on the Diamonds in the Rough podcast, Teddi shared: "You guys, [the] press needs to get on it a little bit faster because by the time they figured out who my mystery man was, we’re already done.

"I had to call things off.

"All of a sudden, I open up the freaking worldwide web. I’m like, ‘The mystery man.’ Oh, now you guys figured it out."

Teddi described Ricci as a "really nice guy". However, she doesn't think she's ready for a serious romance at this point in time.

The reality star - who split from her husband, Edwin Arroyave, in 2024 - said: "Right now, it started getting to the point where it’s starting to get a little bit more serious. I was like, ‘I don’t have the capacity for this right now.'

"He’s a really nice guy, couldn’t be a nicer guy."

"I don’t feel my best. So, when I have downtime, I want to rest. It’s not even, like, about a need right now, and I think that’s the crazy thing about this."

Meanwhile, Teddi recently confessed that she's ignoring "hard conversations" about the future.

The reality star was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer earlier this year after she was found to have multiple tumours on her brain and lungs, and although she has successfully undergone immunotherapy - which has seen the growths "significantly" shrink - Teddi is "in denial" of her physical condition.

Speaking on her Two Ts in a Pod podcast, she said: "I think it's really hard being in a place where, I kind of am in denial of where I am physically. And when other people are not in denial, it's hard.

"My family wants to have like the hard conversations, and I don't ... They want to talk about things like the future, or medically, exactly how I'm doing, and I don't want to talk about it."

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