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Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson Child Star.
The now 19-year-old gained fame at the age of five when he appeared in the classic episode of TLC’s “Toddler & Tiaras.” TLC later gave his family his own reality show, “Here Comes Comes Honey Boo Boo” in 2012.
Thompson claimed it was new Interviews with people Despite appearing on popular shows, she hasn’t seen money since then. She also claimed that her mother, “Mama June” Shannon, in June, took $35,000 from her income when she appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2019.
Mama June revealed that she spent nearly $1 million in her final year of addiction

June Shannon and Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson in 2012. (JB lacroix/wireimage/getty images)
“No, ‘I’m sorry,'” Thompson said.
Shannon was open about her fight against drug addiction and shared that she had funded her habits in the past. Although she is now calm, for much of Thompson’s childhood, she became an active addiction, and Thompson’s older sister, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Ephard, took her custody when she was 14 years old.
“I realized something was off about her,” Thompson told Shannon’s addicted people. “She started locking the door. It really touched me, ‘Oh, what is she doing?’
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Thompson claimed that Mama June won $35,000 from her income while appearing on 2019’s “Dancing With the Stars.” (David Livingstone/Getty Images)
Mama June admits a drug habit of $2,500 per day in emotional pleasing to reunite with her children
Thompson admitted that her mother’s drug addiction humiliated her, even when she went to school.
“People thought, ‘I saw your mom with a ruptured teeth on the news and stuffed it,” Thompson recalled. “I’m ‘Great, like I didn’t see it either.”
Still, she passed her hurdles and focused on her education, explaining, “I know you want to do better things in your life than you’re on TV, so you have to get up and go, so you can go to college and become the nurse you want.”

Thompson spent his childhood in the spotlight on many reality shows. (AP News)
In 2019, Shannon was arrested on suspicion, along with her boyfriend, Genodouak. Drug possession Following a domestic dispute at Alabama gas station. Details about what drew police to gas stations were not made public at the time. Doak had a long criminal history, including theft, robbery and arrests for criminal damage to property. The couple had been dating for three years.
Around this time, Shannon began selling her belongings and eventually began selling her home. This was also when she lost custody of Thompson.
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In 2020, Shannon and Ephard met on their family’s latest reality show, “Mama June: Family Crisis,” where they discussed her way back to Thompson’s life. That’s when she dropped a big confession about her past drug habits.

Television personality June Shannon was previously arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs. (Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
“The only reason I sold my house…we broke f–broken,” she explained. “You know, we were doing quite a bit at that point. I mean, we were a few ounces a day. Our habit was $2,500 a day.”
Shannon is currently in his 5 years and is plain, but Thompson has revealed how difficult it is to allow his mother to be tumultuous.
“[Forgiveness] It was tough, but at the end of the day she was my mother. When she was addicted and bad, I kept thinking about the day she would recover. We’re doing pretty well. Hopefully, that will continue. I have no hopes for her anymore. ”
Thompson is currently on the rise at university, studying nursing and living in Colorado along with her longtime boyfriend, Doralyn Carswell, 24.
Shannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Fox News Digital.
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