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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, monetary theft, and extra.
Now, Alana is telling her story in a biopic.
This isn’t character assassination in opposition to her mom. However telling her story means dredging up plenty of painful truths.
Wanting tearful within the trailer for her biopic, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson speaks about her previous. (Picture Credit score: Lifetime)
Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson is telling her story, (metaphorical) warts and all
On Tuesday, Might 13, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson spoke to Individuals about her upcoming biopic.
I Was Honey Boo Boo will launch on Lifetime on Might 17. There, Alana opens up about what the household has endured — together with throughout “Mama June” Shannon’s downward spiral that value her all the pieces — aside from her life.
“I’m a little nervous,” confessed the 19-year-old actuality TV character and school pupil.
On an April 2024 episode of Mama June: Household Disaster, June Shannon speaks to the confessional digital camera. (Picture Credit score: WEtv)
“I did not want this movie to be throwing punches at my mama and making her out to be the bad guy,” Alana emphasised.
“But I didn’t hold back,” she then admitted. “And if she gets mad, at the end of the day, it’s the truth.”
Alana is a younger grownup. However June’s spiral into dependancy — which included crack cocaine — started when Alana was nonetheless a toddler.
Mama June Shannon’s crack cocaine dependancy didn’t occur in a single day
“I noticed something was off about her,” Alana recalled. “She started locking her doors, which really made me think, ‘Oh, what is she doing?’”
In 2019, June was now 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 return as June’s face, physique, conduct, residence, and funds all rapidly grew to become visibly worse for put on.
Within the trailer for her 2025 Lifetime biopic, Alana Thompson acknowledges that some nonetheless know her solely as “Honey Boo Boo.” (Picture Credit score: Lifetime)
Throughout that point, June spent greater than $1 million of her personal cash and offered off her massive suburban residence to pay for her dependancy.
June additionally stole $35,000 of Alana’s Dancing With The Stars pay earlier than being lower off — and custody of Alana going to Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon. (June did, years later, pay again her daughter — however notably with out an apology)
June Shannon speaks to the digital camera on this scene from her actuality present. (Picture Credit score: WEtv)
Alana is wanting ahead to what the longer term holds
“I just always told myself, you know, that you want to do something better with your life and bigger with your life than just being on TV,” Alana affirmed.
She continued: “So you’ve got to get up and go, you’ve got to graduate so you can make it to college and be the nurse that you want to be.” She is in school and learning to be a nurse, in reality!
“At the end of the day, she’s my mom. When she was bad in her addiction, I just kept thinking about the day she’d recover,” Alana shared.
“We’re going pretty good. Hopefully it lasts. I just no longer have any expectations for her.”
