“Oh my gosh, this is so surreal."
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Alana Thompson, better known as Honey Boo Boo, is opening up about where she stands with her mom June Thompson, better known as Mama June.
In June 2024, Mama June revealed she was in “a dark place” in her life when she stole more than $30,000 from Honey Boo Boo. Despite having a Coogan account throughout her childhood, Mama June admitted that the funds Honey Boo Boo made while a contestant on “The Masked Singer” and “Dancing With the Stars: Juniors” were never fully deposited into the bank account.
At the time, Honey Boo Boo said she was blindsided that the money she was making was being used for other things.
Revealing that she thought "100% of that money was going into that account,” she said she “worked really hard for what I have and the money that I have, so I was assuming or under the assumption she put 100 percent of the money in there, but that's not how that worked.”
According to Sag-aftra, “a Coogan Account is a special blocked trust fund account found at a bank, credit union or brokerage firm” that minors can’t access until they are 18 years of age.
In a conversation with Entertainment Tonight, Honey Boo Boo admitted she was at her “breaking point” when she learned about the money her mom took from her.
“My breaking point for her was definitely when she took the money. I was done,” the now 19-year-old nursing student explained. “I thought never in a million years she would do that to me, because she just preached so much when we were younger that we have Coogan Accounts. We're gonna make sure that your future is okay. And then it's like, for you to turn around and do that. It's like, basically, like a stab in the back.”
Honey Boo Boo shared that she often asked herself why she keeps letting her mom back into her life time and time again, but ultimately admitted that Mama June is “her mom.”
Now she says her and her mom have since come to a “resolution.”
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“Right now, we're doing actually really good, and I can say that my mom is in a really good spot right now,” Honey Boo Boo told ET. “I’m really proud of her and how far she's come.”
Currently, the teenager has stepped away from Hollywood as she works toward a degree in nursing in Denver, Colorado.
“I’m just living my best life,” she told People in an earlier interview.
