June and daughters Alana, Lauryn and Jessica open up about how a lot issues have modified, as they sit down for a uncommon interview collectively after years of discord within the household.
June Shannon and her daughters are in a greater place now than they have been for years — but it surely wasn’t straightforward.
Sitting down with TooFab forward of the brand new season of Mama June: Household Disaster, the matriarch and her three daughters — Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird and Jessica “Chubbs” Shannon — opened up about how they have been capable of put their messy previous behind them and at last get on the identical web page.
The interview is among the first they’ve executed collectively in years, after doing promo for the present individually in latest seasons. Among the many points between mom and daughters prior to now have been June’s drug use, in addition to claims she took cash from Alana. With June now sober and, apparently, squared up with Honey Boo Boo over their financials, the household dynamic is headed in the suitable route.
For the ladies, nonetheless, getting thus far was by no means a assure.
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“I positively suppose there’s been instances in our arguments and stuff, there’s instances I simply thought, ‘Tremendous, I am executed, I am simply going to be executed with this case,” Lauryn informed TooFab. “I believe we have all been at our wits finish in some unspecified time in the future.”
“However for us, it is type of like, we’re all we have ever identified. It is all the time type of been us 4 women,” she continued. “Sticking collectively, speaking it out and speaking does repair quite a lot of points and actions being louder than phrases is a giant assertion for us.”
“It’s important to determine it out,” added June, stressing how vital it’s for the 4 ladies to stay collectively. “Our circle could be very, very small, so it does take so much to let any person in outdoors of this.”
“There was positively instances the place I did not know if we might have the ability to discover decision for it,” Alana stated of her cash points, after accusing June of spending $30,000 she earned from showing on Dancing with the Stars and The Masked Singer.
“Mama was preventing so laborious tooth and nail, however we figured it out,” she added, teasing followers must watch to see how they obtained to the place they’re now. “We’re right here immediately, so that claims so much.”
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Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson on Mama June’s Drug Habit, The place They Stand Now
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For Lauryn, what made transferring ahead all of the harder was simply what number of problematic points popped up in fast succession.
“Simply all of it, if I am being sincere,” she stated when requested what was hardest to get previous. “All of it occurred so rapidly, with the habit, then the cash factor and all that stuff. I really feel like that every one got here, bang, bang, bang, all again collectively, so you did not have time to course of every factor.”
All of them, nonetheless, credit score June’s husband, Justin Stroud, with serving to dealer the peace — as he is been seen on the household’s present pushing June to fix issues together with her daughters.
“I do suppose that Justin held her accountable,” added Lauryn. “I do suppose Justin, he is simply so good to Mama. He holds her accountable for lots of issues and collectively they’re an unstoppable duo.”
The 4 have additionally come collectively to assist elevate the late Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s daughter, after June’s daughter died from most cancers in 2023. June now has custody of Kaitlyn, who turns 13 in July.
“It has been tough, however what individuals do not understand is that we, when Kaitlyn was actually small, we raised her so much these first years,” shared June. “Having a teen in the home was very totally different for me and Justin. She’s a sassy teenager typically and typically she’s good, that is only a typical teenager.”
Mama June: Household Disaster airs Fridays on WE television.
