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At the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Teddi Mellencamp chats with THR on the red carpet and shares how emotional she's gotten writing her speech to honor her dad, John Mellencamp, with the Icon Award. Plus, she shares how excited she is for him to be going on tour, performing his greatest hits and talks about her opinion on 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' drama.

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00:00So what does it mean to be here today and giving this Icon Award to your dad?
00:04Well, it's been really exciting because iHeart's been a part of my family, you know, like doing the podcast forever.
00:10And so when my dad called me and he's like, hey, iHeart invited me to come for the Icon Award.
00:15I'm like, awesome, cool, I'll come watch.
00:17And he's like, no, I want you to present.
00:19And I'm like, dad, no, I can't.
00:22Like, this is way different than the podcast world.
00:26And he's like, I was like, I've been sick.
00:27You know, I had every excuse in the book.
00:29And then he's like, Teddy, you'll be fine on that day.
00:33And you know what?
00:34Here I am.
00:35So that's amazing.
00:37Have you gotten emotional while practicing what you're going to say?
00:40Do you feel like it might be an emotional moment?
00:42I've gotten very emotional while when I was writing it, I got very emotional.
00:46You know, just thinking about even this past year, I feel like he's pretty much nursed me back to life.
00:53And I'm just so grateful to him.
00:55And I'm so excited that he's, you know, about to go on tour and do his greatest hits for the
01:01first time.
01:02I'm like, did it take me dying for you to finally listen to me and go out and play your
01:07greatest hits on where people give people what they want?
01:10To you, which hit is the greatest hit?
01:13What's your favorite John Mellencamp song?
01:15Oh, my gosh.
01:16Greatest hit.
01:17I like Life is Short, even on its longest days.
01:20But, like, biggest hit, biggest hit, it's like, I'll always love Jack and Diane because regardless if he says it's
01:26not about my mom and dad, they're the ones in the video.
01:30I love that.
01:31And what's going on with your podcast?
01:32What do you have coming up that you're excited about?
01:35I do a podcast called Two Teas in a Pod with Tamara Judge.
01:38And we have all the different Bravo Leberties on and we recap all the different shows.
01:43So we've got a lot of new Housewives shows coming up.
01:46We've got, so we've got a lot.
01:49We always have something to talk about.
01:50I mean, this week we've had to talk about Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
01:54I'm exhausted.
01:56My fingertips are exhausted from researching.
02:00What's your take?
02:01Do you have one that you'll share?
02:03Yeah, I'll have one that I share.
02:04Like, you know, one, I think everybody knew this happened.
02:09We all knew this happened.
02:10The very first episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, we saw the, you know, the cam footage, some of
02:17it, not the recent one.
02:18But so everybody knew.
02:20So people, the acting, shocked.
02:22That's shocking to me.
02:24But what I can say is seeing the video was jarring.
02:28It was heartbreaking.
02:29And I completely can understand why they would pull it.
02:32But I also have so much, my heart breaks for Taylor and what she's probably going through because I do
02:40think, you know, she loves her kids.
02:42I do know she loves her kids.
02:48I love her kids.
02:49You
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