By Eve Buckland and Cydney Yeates For Dailymail.Com
22:05 11 Jun 2024, updated 22:09 11 Jun 2024
Mama June defended spending $30,000 of daughter Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo‘ Thompson’s money in an explosive teaser for Mama June: Family Crisis.
Mama June, 44, who is grieving the loss of daughter Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell to cancer at age 29, unleased an expletive-laden rant after Alana, 18 and her sister, Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Elfird lambasted her in a private chat.
Per the teaser obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Alana says of June and husband Justin Stroud: ‘She’s just sitting there f**king lying, bro. Your own f**king husband is sitting there telling you that you did wrong
‘That s**t’s got me f**king shaking.’
Lauryn retorts: ‘The point of the matter is that you’re a piece of s**t mama and took somebody’s f**king money.’
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June is then questioned by producers about whether she believes the ‘$30,000 is Alana’s and is owed back to her’ – with the angry star responding: ‘I legally put the 20 percent in there.”
‘I don’t give a f**k. Take me to court!’
When asked if she thinks Alana is a teenager asking for $30,000 or if Alana wants all the money back she spent, June says: ‘I think it’s a little bit of both. I hate to say it, but I feel like it’s a little bit of both.’
Justin then says: ‘June. It’s her money!’ with June responding: ‘I do understand that it’s her money, but a lot of her money was spent on her own self. I don’t give a f**k.”
Justin says: ‘As a parent, that’s what you do, June. Whether it’s successful or it’s not, that’s what you do as a parent, you invest in them to a certain extent. Don’t let them abuse you.’
June retorts: ‘But that’s what I feel like they have been [doing]!’ leading Justin to reply: ‘In this situation right here, June, you owe it to her.’
‘When you asked me to take care of stuff and you asked me to move here, I did it. And because I love them and I care for them and I want the relationship to not be f–ked up, at least on my end.
‘I need you as your husband to take care of it’ as June shrugs.
In April ‘Mama June‘ admitted she spent $35,000 of daughter Alana’s money on ‘life expenses’ including manicures and household bills – while continuing to shut down criticism for not contributing to her college fund.
The television personality has come under fire in recent episodes of Mama June: Family Crisis for not helping to support her youngest child with funding her nursing degree.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com ahead of the episode, June revealed how she managed to burn through all of the cash, which Alana received for participating in the ABC competition show in 2018, in which she placed eighth.
She also gloated that she will not legally have to pay back the astonishing sum – and even went as far as to claim that Alana, 18, has over six figures stashed up in a savings account which she herself is refusing to dip into.
June began by insisting that she only spent Alana’s Dancing With The Stars pay check and did not steal her entire savings, stating: ‘I did not spend 12 years of money. It was only from one show [Dancing With The Stars].
‘Alana has money in a Coogan account [a special blocked trust fund account for child stars] that she is choosing not to touch – and it is in the six figures. It’s like is over $200,000.
‘In the episode this Friday, people will hopefully see that… they will see that it’s not six figures that was spent. She doesn’t not have money. She’s not broke.’
Alana’s total fee for Dancing With The Stars amounted to $60,000, but after Californian taxes, June claimed all that remained was $35,000.
‘It is really only $30,000,’ she continued. ‘That’s not a lot of money. We paid the bills with that, it went on whatever her needs were, whether it was getting her nails done or her lashes done or whatever it was.
‘We also stayed out in California back in 2018 when she was on Dancing With The Stars and that did cost.
‘Unfortunately, I didn’t have a ton of money myself. I used that money to reinvest in her and support us through that time because we stayed out in California for almost a month after she got off Dancing With The Stars.
‘So that’s the only money in question. It’s not hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was only the money from the one show, and I put the recommended amount of money, which was 20% into her savings.
The new season of Mama June: Family Crisis premieres on Friday, June 14 on WE tv.
