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Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson loves “Mama June” Shannon.
Actually, she does. Even after June’s downward spiral of crack dependancy, financial theft, and extra.
Now, Alana is telling her story in a biopic.
This isn’t character assassination towards her mom. However telling her story means dredging up numerous painful truths.
Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson is telling her story, (metaphorical) warts and all
On Tuesday, Could 13, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson spoke to Folks about her upcoming biopic.
I Was Honey Boo Boo will launch on Lifetime on Could 17. There, Alana opens up about what the household has endured — together with throughout “Mama June” Shannon’s downward spiral that price her all the things — apart from her life.
“I’m a bit nervous,” confessed the 19-year-old actuality TV persona and college student.
“I didn’t need this film to be throwing punches at my mama and making her out to be the dangerous man,” Alana emphasised.
“However I didn’t maintain again,” she then admitted. “And if she will get mad, on the finish of the day, it’s the reality.”
Alana is a younger grownup. However June’s spiral into dependancy — which included crack cocaine — started when Alana was nonetheless a baby.
Mama June Shannon’s crack cocaine dependancy didn’t occur in a single day
“I seen one thing was off about her,” Alana recalled. “She began locking her doorways, which actually made me assume, ‘Oh, what’s she doing?’”
In 2019, June was not capable of disguise her rising drawback with substance abuse from anybody — together with the general public. Together with authorities.
Memorably, she and then-boyfriend Geno Doak had been arrested.
This heralded the horrors within the months to come back as June’s face, physique, habits, dwelling, and funds all rapidly turned visibly worse for put on.
“Folks had been like, ‘I noticed your mama on the information with a busted tooth, strung out,’” Alana recalled. “I’m like, ‘Nice, like I didn’t see that too.’”
Throughout that point, June spent greater than $1 million of her personal cash and bought off her giant suburban dwelling to pay for her dependancy.
June additionally stole $35,000 of Alana’s Dancing With The Stars pay earlier than being reduce off — and custody of Alana going to Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon. (June did, years later, pay again her daughter — however notably with out an apology)
Alana is wanting ahead to what the long run holds
“I simply at all times informed myself, , that you just need to do one thing higher along with your life and larger along with your life than simply being on TV,” Alana affirmed.
She continued: “So that you’ve acquired to rise up and go, you’ve acquired to graduate so you may make it to varsity and be the nurse that you just need to be.” She is in faculty and learning to be a nurse, in truth!
“On the finish of the day, she’s my mother. When she was dangerous in her dependancy, I simply saved fascinated with the day she’d get well,” Alana shared.
“We’re going fairly good. Hopefully it lasts. I simply not have any expectations for her.”
