(L-R) Teddi Mellencamp and Edwin Arroyave.Photo:Paul Archuleta/Getty; OGUT/Star Max/GC Images
Paul Archuleta/Getty; OGUT/Star Max/GC Images
Teddi Mellencampis getting honest about why things didn’t work out in her marriage toEdwin Arroyave.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum, 43, addressed her separation from Arroyave on the Monday, Feb. 3 edition ofThe Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show.
“Me and Edwin have had some of the most amazing years and the most amazing times, and when we met, I mean, it was hot, and it was all the things,” said Mellencamp. “And then, you know, there’d be somebody else.And then I’d be like, ‘It’s okay, I can work through it. I’m going to make him love me more,’ you know, whatever it was.”
“Then you have kids, and things happen. I would say probably at the point in time Edwin was ready to start working on it and really change, I probably stopped,” she continued.
She filed the paperwork citing irreconcilable differences and listed their separation date as Oct. 20.The pair share three kids: Slate, 12, Cruz, 10 and Dove, 4.
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Edwin Arroyave and Teddi Mellencamp arrive at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival.Mindy Small/Getty
Mindy Small/Getty
“I think that’s the problem,” she said. Although she expressed that she noticed him “trying to change his life,” Mellencamp felt “resentment or animosity or fear of ever being open again.”
Mellencamp also revealed some of the difficulties they went through and how they affected her time onThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,whichshe was a part of from seasons 8 to 10 as a cast memberand would later make guest appearances.
Teddi Mellencamp attends KIIS FM’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2024 Presented By Capital One at Intuit Dome on December 6, 2024.Elyse Jankowski/FilmMagic
Elyse Jankowski/FilmMagic
“I would say the worst time in our marriage was right after the kids, up until when I booked the show.I’d had all the IVF issues, and then our biggest struggle was right when they had told me that you booked Housewives,” she said.
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“I don’t know, I had like so much fear, and I think that’s why if you watch me onBeverly Hillsand then if you also listen toTwo Ts In a Podthey’re like, ‘you sound like two different people,’ and I was like ‘yeah I was a shell of myself like trying to portray this perfect life that was really far from perfect,’ " continued Mellencamp.
source: people.com
