Teddi Mellencamp reacted to Brandon Blackstock’s death and said it “really hit me hard” amid her own journey with melanoma. Blackstock’s death from melanoma comes four months after Mellencamp confirmed she had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

Brandon Blackstock’s death hit close to home for Teddi Mellencamp as she fights her own battle against stage 4 melanoma. On the Wednesday, August 13, installment of her Two T’s in a Pod podcast show,

Brandon Blackstock, a talent manager and former husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, has died at the age of 48. He had been privately battling melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer, for over three years.