Teddi Mellencamp sobs over missing daughter’s birthday during cancer battle: ‘My heart broke’

Teddi Mellencamp is opening up about battling stage 4 brain and lung cancer.

The reality star became emotional while detailing how the disease is affecting all aspects of her life, including motherhood.

“I remember one day in the hospital I was like, ‘I feel like today might be Dove’s birthday,'” Mellencamp, 43, who shares the five year old along with Slate, 12, and Cruz, 10, with estranged husband Edwin Arroyave, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday.

“And Edwin’s like, ‘It is. It’s her party today that you planned.’ I was like, ‘Can they please just let me out for today?'”

Mellencamp recounted how Arroyave’s response was “exactly what I needed him to say.”

“He’s like, ‘We’ll throw another one,'” she told the outlet. “But my heart broke because I’m wondering, ‘Will she remember that I wasn’t there?'”