{"id":2398099,"date":"2026-05-01T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2398099"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:20:19","slug":"teddi-mellencamp-fires-back-at-rhobhs-dorit-kemsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/teddi-mellencamp-fires-back-at-rhobhs-dorit-kemsley\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddi Mellencamp Fires Back at RHOBH\u2019s Dorit Kemsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/teddi-mellencamp\/\"><strong>Teddi Mellencamp<\/strong><\/a> fired back at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/dorit-kemsley\/\"><strong>Dorit Kemsley<\/strong><\/a>, accusing her former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills\/\"><em>Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em><\/a> costar of \u201chypocrisy\u201d over the decline of their friendship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is she playing a victim now when it comes to me? \u2026 Now you just want people to jump on me because I made a point that upset you, which I get. I 100 percent get,\u201d Teddi, 44, insisted on the Friday, May 1, episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-two-ts-in-a-pod-with-tedd-49447273\/episode\/revved-up-teddi-rhobh-332200029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her \u201cTwo Ts in a Pod\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cDo I think it was something nice to say? No. Was I being an a**hole? I don\u2019t want to apologize for my comment. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/dorit-kemsley-calls-out-teddi-mellencamp-for-surgery-comment\/\">Teddi upset her former friend<\/a> while recapping Dorit\u2019s estranged husband <strong>PK Kemsley<\/strong>\u2019s interview on the \u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d podcast, where <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rhobhs-pk-kemsley-says-show-changed-his-marriage-to-dorit\/\">he broke his silence<\/a> about their divorce. (The Kemsleys announced their separation in May 2024 and filed for divorce the following year.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPK says the show created scenarios that did not happen,\u201d Teddi said on Wednesday, April 29. \u201cWhat about that crying episode when their home was burglarized and Dorit was hugging <strong>Mauricio<\/strong> [<strong>Umansky<\/strong>]? Was that created?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/teddi-mellencamp-shares-update-on-dorit-kemsley-friendship-amid-cancer\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/teddi-mellencamp-shares-update-on-dorit-kemsley-friendship-amid-cancer\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Where Teddi Mellencamp and Dorit Kemsley\u2019s Friendship Really Stands<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTeddi Mellencamp has a positive update to share regarding her friendship status with Dorit Kemsley. \u201cDorit \u2014 since the pod \u2014 has reached out,\u201d Mellencamp, 43, shared in her exclusive Us Weekly cover story. \u201cErika [Jayne] kind of told me. She\u2019s like, \u2018Dorit does want to reach out to you now. Can she?\u2019 And I\u2019m [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Teddi also accused Dorit, 49, of manipulating story lines on <em>RHOBH<\/em> throughout her eight years on the Bravo reality show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[PK] said he began to look at Dorit wondering, \u2018Who are you?\u2019\u201d Teddi told her podcast listeners. \u201cAt that moment, I was wondering, \u2018Did he mean because of the plastic surgery or how she mentally was acting?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorit has repeatedly denied having plastic surgery. She responded to Teddi\u2019s snarky comments via the \u201cTwo Ts in a Pod\u201d podcast\u2019s Instagram account on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad to see someone who once called me a friend go this low,\u201d Dorit wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cTwo Ts in a Pod\u201d episode, Teddi pointed out that there has been friction in her relationship with Dorit dating back two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s so offended that I made the ill-fitted joke \u2026 It\u2019s a big f***ing dig, it\u2019s an a**hole thing to say,\u201d she admitted. \u201cBut for her to comment, saying, \u2018For someone who once was my friend.\u2019 Dorit said on the [<em>RHOBH<\/em>] after show in 2024 that she and I were never really friends. I don\u2019t need to point out the things that I did for Dorit, like I was the first one there when her house was burglarized or that I went to all of her kids\u2019 birthday parties. None of that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teddi accused Dorit of being the only person in their friend group not to support her when she was diagnosed with multiple brain tumors. (Teddi <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/teddi-mellencamp-has-multiple-brain-tumors-is-undergoing-surgery\/\">went public with her brain tumor diagnosis<\/a> in February 2025.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4324859\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4324859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"TCDREHO VO022 Teddi Mellencamp Fires Back at Dorit Kemsley lisa rinna\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TCDREHO_VO022-Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-Dorit-Kemsley-lisa-rinna-e1777657233932.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Dorit Kemsley, Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, Lisa Rinna on \u201cRHOBH.\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Bravo \/ courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat I will have to say is that if you\u2019re going to hold someone to the fire and consider them a good friend or a bad friend versus what they say or what they do, Dorit is the only one of my \u2018used to be friends\u2019 that did not show up to the hospital for me,\u201d Teddi alleged. \u201cShe did not call me. She did not do the food train. <strong>Erika<\/strong> [<strong>Jayne<\/strong>] was there, [<strong>Lisa<\/strong>] <strong>Rinna<\/strong> was there, [<strong>Tamra<\/strong> <strong>Judge<\/strong> was] there, <strong>Kyle<\/strong> [<strong>Richards<\/strong>] was there. \u2026 I never heard a [word from Dorit]. If she can be this upset that people aren\u2019t going to 100 percent bow down and pretend that the way her behavior this year is appropriate, I think she has been rude to everyone throughout the entire season. She has been rude to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> has reached out to Dorit\u2019s representative for comment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Teddi stressed that she does feel sympathy for Dorit over her divorce from PK, 58.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate [that] what Dorit\u2019s going through turned her the way that she is, which is very angry,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re all going through it in different ways and different reasons. \u2026 I will say, you can\u2019t go for somebody\u2019s jugular and act like they\u2019re hurting you in a time where you\u2019re being hurt when you weren\u2019t even there when the person you were supposedly good friends with was dying. Not a peep. This bugs me and it makes me side with everybody else but her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em> airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teddi Mellencamp fired back at Dorit Kemsley, accusing her former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costar of \u201chypocrisy\u201d over the decline of their friendship. \u201cWhy is she playing a victim now when it comes to me? \u2026 Now you just want people to jump on me because I made a point that upset you, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2398100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[304753,24003,315558],"class_list":["post-2398099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-news","tag-the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Teddi-Mellencamp-Fires-Back-at-RHOBHs-Dorit-Kemsley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398101,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398099\/revisions\/2398101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}