Current:Home > MyMama June Shannon Reveals She Spent $1 Million on Drugs Amid Addiction -TradeWisdom
Mama June Shannon Reveals She Spent $1 Million on Drugs Amid Addiction
View
Date:2025-04-18 17:12:14
Here comes Mama June Shannon's honest confessions about her battle with addiction.
Sober for more than three years, the reality star looked back on her lowest moments, including spending $1 million on cocaine.
"I don't remember like a lot of that time frame," the 43-year-old told The Daily Mail in an interview published May 10. "Just bits and pieces and stuff. But the biggest, stupidest thing I've done is spend that much money on drugs."
Today, Mama June—who wed Justin Stroud in June—is in disbelief of her actions, wishing she could tell her younger self "'Girl, what the hell are you doing spending all that damn money?'"
"I think about a lot of things I could do with that money," she continued. "My husband tells me all the time that I can't dwell on it."
Spending what she said was up to $3,000 a day on drugs has forced June—who is mom to daughters Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird, Jessica "Chubbs" Shannon and Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell—to be wiser with her cash.
"I've gone back to being like penny pinching," she revealed, "and Justin tells me I'm a money hoarder."
However, she claims her past experiences have caused doctors to be skeptical about treating her, especially when she was hospitalized in September.
When they look at me and I feel like I'm getting judged because of my prior issues," the Mama June: Family Crisis star said. "I hate that the doctors will look at someone who has been through something in their life, like an addiction, and they think that someone can't change."
Now, amid an unknown illness "I just want the answers and I'm not getting them," she shared. "I'm trying to get into to see the best doctors that I know back in Georgia, but it is taking some time."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (25)
Related
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- Florida teachers file federal suit against anti-pronoun law in schools
- Virginia 4th graders fall ill after eating gummy bears contaminated with fentanyl
- How the deep friendship between an Amazon chief and Belgian filmmaker devolved into accusations
- Google unveils a quantum chip. Could it help unlock the universe's deepest secrets?
- Dwayne Johnson to star in Mark Kerr biopic from 'Uncut Gems' director Benny Safdie
- 'The Crown' ends as pensive meditation on the most private public family on Earth
- Japan, UK and Italy formally establish a joint body to develop a new advanced fighter jet
- What to watch: O Jolie night
- AP PHOTOS: Crowds bundle up to take snowy photos of Beijing’s imperial-era architecture
Ranking
- The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
- Coal mine accident kills 3 in northern China’s Shanxi province, a major coal-producing region
- In 'Asgard's Wrath 2,' VR gaming reaches a new God mode
- Few US adults would be satisfied with a possible Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, AP-NORC poll shows
- Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
- Barbie director Greta Gerwig heads jury of 2024 Cannes Festival, 1st American woman director in job
- Janet Yellen says the Trump administration’s China policies left the US more vulnerable
- Paris prosecutors investigating death of actress who accused Gérard Depardieu of sexual misconduct
Recommendation
Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
Kyiv protesters demand more spending on the Ukraine’s war effort and less on local projects
Japan’s Kishida replaces 4 ministers linked to slush funds scandal to contain damage to party
Discovery inside unearthed bottle would’ve shocked the scientist who buried it in 1879
Toyota to invest $922 million to build a new paint facility at its Kentucky complex
Lawmaker’s suspension means a possible special election and more trouble for U.K. Conservatives
Ex-Tokyo Olympics official pleads not guilty to taking bribes in exchange for Games contracts
Stocking Stuffers That Are So Cool & Useful You Just Have to Buy Them