In a new episode of WE tv's 'Mama June: Family Crisis', the Shannon matriarch comes clean about her history of drug use during a tearful reunion with her daughter Lauryn 'Pumpkin' Shannon.
- Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz - Mama June a.k.a. June Shannon is one step closer to getting her life back on track after she went through a downward spiral in the past year. In the latest episode of "Mama June: Family Crisis", the reality TV star came clean about her past and present drug use that has left her financially broke during a tearful reunion with her daughter Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon.
The 40-year-old matriarch revealed she and her boyfriend Geno Doak would spend $2,500 a day on various kinds of drugs, which included Fioricet, a prescription pain medicine used to treat the symptoms of tension headache, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. "The only reason I sold the house, we was dead f***ing broke," she said on the show.
"Because you know at that point we was doing quite a bit," June admitted her problem that left her broke. "I mean, it was a couple ounces a day." She added of her methamphetamine usage, "Our habit was $2,500 a day, if not more."
On how she started doing drugs, June said that she "got high because I wanted to." She went on telling her daughter Pumpkin, "It wasn't something that just started, and oh my God, I started using drugs, you found out that I got busted. It wasn't. I got high because I wanted to. It's not the first time I've ever done drugs, and you know that."
Despite June's claim that it wasn't the first time for her to use drugs, it apparently still came as a shock for Pumpkin, who said, "It's been the first time since we've been older that you've ever been strung out." Sharing her frustration, the 20-year-old continued, "The thing is like, you can't get clean and then Geno not get f***ing clean."
Pumpkin clearly still objects to June's relationship with Geno, confessing, "I'm at the point of like I’m kind of done with him. I don't like the way that he has treated you." She added, "I don't even understand quite honestly why you are still with him. He has done you dirty, like he came into the house and then it was like he was pushing me out."
June tried to convince her daughter that they have changed for the better. "I promise you, for the last couple months we have been, I would say, 90 percent good," she argued. "If this was four or five months ago, I would have been high as f**k when I came up in here."
June's relationship with her daughters has been strained since she was arrested in March 2019 on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her. Geno was also arrested and charged with third-degree domestic violence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Due to June's drug use, her younger daughter Alana Thompson a.k.a. Honey Boo Boo has been living with her sister Pumpkin. The mom of four, however, recently checked into rehab after testing positive for cocaine as the cumulative result of her cold medication abuse.
