Edwin Arroyave and Teddi Mellencamp Courtesy of Edwin Arroyave/Instagram
Teddi Mellencamp’s estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, has damaged his silence after she confirmed their separation.
Arroyave, 47, filed a response to Mellencamp’s divorce docs on Friday, November 8, requesting that the courtroom implement their prenup. “Pursuant to the events’ Premarital Settlement, all property, earnings from all sources, and obligations of every social gathering are his/her separate property, besides as particularly set forth therein,” learn his authorized docs, obtained by Us Weekly.
The docs proceed: “The complete nature and extent of [Arroyave’s] separate property is just not totally recognized to [Arroyave] right now. [Arroyave] will amend this Response and/or file and/or serve acceptable additional pleadings to set forth any further info at a later time as extra info turns into out there to him.”
Opposite to Mellencamp’s divorce submitting, Arroyave’s response lists the pair’s date of separation as November 1, 2024, versus October 20, 2024. He’s additionally looking for joint authorized and bodily custody of their three kids — Slate, 12, Dove, 4, and Cruz, 10 — whereas Mellencamp, 43, is asking for main custody. (The businessman can be father to eldest daughter Isabella from a earlier relationship.)
Mellencamp introduced her plans to file for divorce on Saturday, November 2.
“After an excessive amount of care and consideration, I’ve made the troublesome resolution to file for divorce,” the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum wrote by way of Instagram. “My precedence is my kids and making certain that each care is taken with their privateness and wellbeing all through this new chapter.”
She concluded, “Making a public assertion is just not one thing I needed to do, however in an effort to guard my household from undue hypothesis and rumors, I felt being open, trustworthy and susceptible was the most effective path ahead.”
Lower than one week earlier than Mellencamp shocked Bravo followers along with her cut up announcement, she had Arroyave by her aspect whereas cohosting the Treatment Melanoma gala.
“I all the time say life and ache are inseparable and to see @teddimellencamp embrace her ache and use it for the higher good once more final evening as she emceed the @curemelanoma gala, was a phenomenal reminder of what she is able to,” he wrote by way of Instagram on October 27. “Her story has already saved lives. And I couldn’t be prouder that she’s going to proceed to save lots of extra. Love you, Teds.”
A number of months earlier, Arroyave marked their thirteenth marriage ceremony anniversary.
“13 years in the past I married who I believed was the lady of my goals, however because the years have passed by I’ve realized she’s not simply the lady of my goals, she’s additionally the mom of my goals, the spouse of my goals and the love of my life,” he penned in July. “Plus, she retains a imply calendar. Thanks for all that you just do for me and our household. I really like you, @teddimellencamp.”
The pair almost separated in 2017 throughout Mellencamp’s first season of RHOBH. (She was a Housewife for seasons 8 to 10.)
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“After we first began, I keep in mind my first day actually it was like ‘F—, at what level do I inform everyone that I’m getting a divorce? Like when do I do that?’” Teddi informed Tamra Decide throughout a March 2023 episode of their “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast. “We’re at our worst absolute part, as a result of honestly, for us, it was actually a couple of energy battle.”
She continued on the time, “We had been all the time type of equals once we had been collectively. I rode horses, I used to be aggressive and I used to be all these items. Then I couldn’t get pregnant naturally, I did all these IVFs. Then, swiftly, he was in command of our funds, and I had by no means been that. I by no means not had my very own cash, I had been working since I used to be 17. Then I simply began hating him.”
As she defined, it took higher self-love and communication to work by means of the problems.
Earlier this month, a supply solely informed Us that the duo’s cut up had been “a very long time coming,” as they “have been up and down for the final seven-plus years.” The insider famous that they “have been in remedy over time” however in the end agreed “they’re higher as co-parents and might be amicable shifting ahead.”