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Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson is speaking retired astir her struggles arsenic a child star.
The now-19-year-old roseate to fame astatine nan property of 5 erstwhile she appeared successful a classical section of TLC’s "Toddlers & Tiaras." TLC later gave her family their ain reality show, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," successful 2012.
Thompson claimed successful a caller interview pinch People that contempt starring successful nan celebrated show, she's ne'er seen immoderate of nan money from it. She besides alleged that her mother, June "Mama June" Shannon, took $35,000 from her net during her quality connected "Dancing pinch nan Stars" successful 2019, only returning nan money recently—but without immoderate apology.
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June Shannon and Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson successful 2012. (JB Lacroix/WireImage/Getty Images)
"There was no, ‘I’m sorry,’" Thompson said.
Shannon has been candid astir her struggle pinch supplier addiction, sharing successful nan past that she went collapsed backing her habit. She's now sober, but for overmuch of Thompson's childhood, she was successful progressive addiction, to nan constituent wherever Thompson's older sister, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird, took custody of her erstwhile she was 14.
"I noticed thing was disconnected astir her," Thompson told People of Shannon's addiction. "She started locking her doors, which really made maine think, ‘Oh, what is she doing?’"
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Thompson alleged that Mama June took $35,000 from her net during her quality connected "Dancing pinch nan Stars" successful 2019. (David Livingston/Getty Images)
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Thompson admitted her mother’s supplier addiction humiliated her, moreover erstwhile she attended school.
"People were like, ‘I saw your mama connected nan news pinch a busted tooth, strung out,’" Thompson remembered. "I’m like, ‘Great, for illustration I didn’t spot that too.’"
Still, she pushed past her hurdles and focused connected her education, explaining, "I conscionable ever told myself you cognize that you want to do thing amended pinch your life and bigger pinch your life than conscionable being connected TV, truthful you've sewage to get up and go, you've sewage to postgraduate truthful you tin make it to assemblage and beryllium nan caregiver that you want to be."

Thompson spent her puerility successful nan spotlight connected a number of reality shows. (The Associated Press)
In 2019, Shannon on pinch her boyfriend, Geno Doak, was arrested connected suspicion of drug possession pursuing a home conflict astatine an Alabama state station. Details astir what drew constabulary to nan state position were not released astatine nan time. Doak had a lengthy criminal history that included arrests for theft, burglary and criminal harm to property. The mates had been making love for 3 years.
Around this time, Shannon began trading her belongings, and yet her home. This was besides erstwhile she mislaid custody of Thompson.
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In 2020, Shannon and Efird met connected nan family's latest reality show, "Mama June: Family Crisis," to talk a way for her to return to Thompson’s life. That’s erstwhile she dropped nan large confession astir her past supplier habits.

TV characteristic June Shannon was antecedently arrested connected suspicion of supplier possession. (Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
"The only logic I sold nan house… we was dormant f---ing broke," she explained. "Because, you know, astatine that constituent we was doing rather a bit. I mean, it was a mates ounces a day. Our wont was $2,500 a day, if not more."
While Shannon is now 5 years sober, Thompson opened up astir really difficult it was to forgive her mother’s tumultuous past.
"[Forgiveness] was hard, but astatine nan extremity of nan day, she’s my mom. When she was bad successful her addiction, I conscionable kept reasoning astir nan time she’d recover. We’re going beautiful good. Hopefully it lasts. I conscionable nary longer person immoderate expectations for her."
Thompson is presently a rising inferior successful college, studying nursing and surviving successful Colorado pinch her longtime boyfriend, Dralin Carswell, 24.
Shannon did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.