Mama June
My Love for My Children Wasn’t Transactional
… However I Felt Like an ATM
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Mama June says she by no means noticed her youngsters as only a means to earn cash … this regardless of her daughter Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson claiming her love was all about money within the upcoming “I Was Honey Boo Boo” Lifetime biopic.
If you have not seen the trailer … the film’s a biopic, however Thompson actually seems within the clip — making feedback in between a number of the sequences from the movie.
At one level, she says “I wanted Mama, but her love was only transactional.”
Mama June — actual title June Shannon — tells TMZ she by no means checked out her youngsters “as a paycheck” or something transactional … however admits she grew up feeling like giving items was the way in which to at least one’s coronary heart.
She explains, “The way that I was brought up is showing your love with money or an item and that’s just the way that it had always been. So my love language was always to buy people things or to get my kids’ attention for a long time, I would give them money or I would give them something.”
MJ even flips the script on Honey Boo Boo — claiming she felt like an ATM for a very long time … each at house and in her romantic {and professional} relationships.
Nevertheless, she says that ship has sailed — she not seeks validation by way of the act of giving … and has even advised her household she desires nothing to do with anybody in the event that they see her as a piggy financial institution. She additionally says she’s “cut off a lot of people throughout the years” as a result of they noticed her as their private pockets.
Mama June tells TMZ she’s labored laborious on herself during the last a number of years, together with addressing her cocaine habit.

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As for her relationship with Alana — who beforehand accused her of stealing the cash she was earned whereas working as a baby star — she notes they’ll “never be close” like they had been a decade in the past on account of the whole lot they have been by way of … however provides her mama is at all times there for her if she wants it.
The biopic comes out Saturday, Could 17 on Lifetime … however, it seems like Mama June says do not imagine the whole lot you see.