Honey Boo Boo reflects Mama June’s struggle with drug addiction and where they are today

Alana “Honey Boo Boo” ThompsonThe upcoming lifelong biopic, I was Honey Boo Boobrought a certain closure into the time in her life when she fought her mother against drug addiction.

“That was really difficult US Weekly exclusively. “In addition, everything my mother did was very difficult for me. That was probably one of the most difficult things to visit it once.”

“But in a way it brought me a kind of closure just because it would let me get a little get out of my chest, and in a way that it was certainly easy closure,” she added.

Here comes Honey Boo Boo From 2012 to 2017 on TLC, after the life of Thompson, then a candidate for children, cited beauty competition, and her family, led by mom. June “Mama June” Shannon. When the spinoff series, Mom June: Not too hotstarted with wetv, Shannon began to fight with drugs. You and the friend of the time Geno doak In 2019, only a few days after their family carried out an intervention for them, were arrested.

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When her mother’s addiction deteriorated, Thompson noticed a change.

“I only noticed that she blocked her door and when she closed her bedroom door, she threw me off,” she said. “But when she started to close her bedroom and bathroom door, it dropped me even more. My mother always had an open house and we can come in and talk about anything.”

And while Thompson said she was never hungry, she was often honored for dinner for herself.

“When she got really bad in her addiction, there were no homemade meals,” she said. “I had to find out alone or I ate a bowl muesli or pasta or whatever it was that I could cook at that time.”

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Thompson admitted that she was worried for the “first one or two years” after her mother had become sober that she falls back. Now Shannon has a few years of sobriety under her belt and it is no longer worry.

“Now it is like I don’t believe that it is just a thought in my head just because she is now how anti-drugs she is now,” said Thompson. “She doesn’t like drugs. She does not smoke cigarettes, she does not make alcohol, literally nothing. She doesn’t do it. She hates it. So I’m very proud of her and I don’t even think that this is a matter of me.”

“We’re in a really good place,” she added. “I mean, to be honest, I can’t put into words how well we are. It’s just perfect. I mean, we don’t talk every day, but we make sure that we communicate with each other.”

I was Honey Boo Boo Premiere on Saturday, May 17th, at 8:00 p.m.