Mama June Shannon is facing the music when it comes to the money missing from her daughter Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson’s Coogan account.
On the April 12 episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon and Alana, 18, planned to confront their mother about the $35,000 missing from the account. Alana referred to her big sister as her “lawyer” as they prepped for Mama June’s arrival.
"It's not about just sticking it to Mama, it's also about her doing the right thing for Alana,” Lauryn, 24, explained. “Alana is the reason you're Mama June, give her her money back and be a decent human being."
However, Mama June, 44, told her husband, Justin Shroud, that she wanted her daughters to accept the reality of the situation, saying, "Money doesn't grow on trees. At some point, you'd have to stand up and say, 'Hey, there's just what's there.' There's nothing that I can do to change that. What more do you want me to do?"
However, Justin advised his wife not to start “World War III.”
When Mama June and Justin arrived, Lauryn showed her the calculations and claimed that her mother spent $500,000 on crack. Alana argued that she only wanted the $35,000 back so she could pay for college.
"I know, baby girl, legally you've done everything right, but morally you're a piece of s---," Lauryn told her mom.
Mama June insisted that she can’t change anything about the past but Justin wanted his wife to take responsibility, saying, “This is what's gonna happen. You're gonna go to the bank in the morning and you're gonna take $30,000 or I'm leaving." However, Mama June said that was fine and Justin countered, "You& -
#39;re willing to throw away our marriage for $30,000?”
Lauryn drew a line in the sand, saying in a confessional, “I know we've been through a lot with this family, but like this is just where I draw the line. The fact that mom was willing to literally throw her entire marriage down the toilet, over the fact that she doesn't want to sign a check for money she took is freaking insane to me.”
Lauryn wanted nothing more to do with Mama June and said she was “done” with the conversation, adding, “You know what Justin is more than welcome at my house. But Mama can get it together. I don't want a relationship there. I don't want to call you. I don't want to because you have said several times over and over again. I'm done with the lying. I've told you. I'm done. I'm sick of it. So I'm not going to and I am done.”
Justin also revealed that he was upset by Mama June’s antics.
“June's out of her freakin’ mind if she thinks I'm just gonna stand here and let her get away with this,” he explained in a confessional. “For some reason she just doesn't understand that what she does affects me. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make this right, even if that means I have to break up my marriage in the process.”
He then begged her “make it right” or "I'm done” but she still refused.
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Mama June: Family Crisis airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on WE tv.
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